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Evette & Schaeffer ???

Author: Michael GC
Date: 2020-10-05 18:20

Hi -- I just now registered for your site upon the recommendation of a gentleman who refurbished my E&S clarinet for me. I may be posting my question inappropriately as a "New Topic" -- but could not find how to add it to a previously existing thread. Please advise if I am in the wrong place.
That being said, I own one of the "mysterious" (seemingly very old) E&S clarinets -- and have exhausted my resources in attempting to learn more about this instrument. But this looks like the place for me to be. Here are some specifics:
The clarinet was given to me when I was 10 (now 74) by an uncle who had acquired it when HE was about that same age (10). He would have been almost 100 today, so simple math dictates that the instrument has to be 75-90 years old.
The clarinet is engraved in several places with a flattened oval containing the words:
Evette & Schaeffer
Paris
France
Outside the oval at the bottom we have:
Modele Buffet -- Crampon

Here is the big mystery. I have found a site that lists the age of many of these instruments by serial number. My problem is that NO serial number goes back as far as mine, which is K1448. Wes Rice, the artisan who refurbished this instrument for me (beautifully) claims to know little about the history of this clarinet, but estimates its age to be, perhaps, 40 - 60 years. He evaluates it as a fine clarinet. The problem is that I know for a historical fact that, considering my uncle's age, it HAS to be much older. That conclusion is corroborated by the fact that s.n.K1448 predates the listed serial numbers that I could find by hundreds (even thousands) of digits. So my question is, of course, can anyone provide more real information on the age of my clarinet -- and any input on its level of quality.
Any help that members could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you, Michael

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