<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3>In a message dated 3/7/03 8:28:33 AM Central Standard Time, lherault@bu.edu writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I am posting this to see if anyone can help me fix a date<BR>
and possible value to a trombone, which belonged to my late mother.<BR>
It is a silver-plated very lightweight 'bone with the following bell<BR>
inscription: Made By Grand Rapids Band Inst Co Grand Rapids Mich<BR>
then below that: U.S.N. (in Block Letters)</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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It was probably a trombone used by US Navy Bands.<BR>
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Jim Beebe</FONT></HTML>