buescher truetone

I work at a homeless shelter, and someone donated a bunch of old instruments, and the only one I recognized, was this old Buescher TT C-mel (low pitch, serial 74xxx). Now its been mounted on someones wall I think, because the bell has a couple punch holes in it near the edge, and there's two...

I just bought a Buescher low pitch TruTone C melody (silver tone with gold inside of bell) on Ebay for just north of $200. The serial number dates the horn around 1918 and, from the seller's description, it was found in a barn. I"m pretty sure that's why I bid on it. I can't help but imagine...