Cornet by C. G. Conn, Elkhart, Indiana, 1883. Gold-plated, jeweled, ornately engraved. Conn frequently adorned his turn-of-the-century cornets and saxophones with multi-colored, mirror-backed glass "jewels." Purchase funds gift of Margaret & Ray T. DeVilbiss, Vermillion, and Verna Lippert, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 1989.
