[Hoosier Ken]

How about a pic of the serial and the bottom of the bow. I think that I read that all of the American Professional saxes were Buescher TTs but I might not be remembering right. I have repadded a couple of saxes and the Lyon and Healy really kicked my butt trying to get all of the keys to seal and adjusted. It sounds pretty good now for a tenor that's over 105 years old. At some point someone had my L&H done before because I can tell that it has been lacquered, I am reasonably certain that it was originally bare brass. At any rate, I would have bought it. BTW there are a few C melody haters around so don't let them get you down.

 

[Hoosier Ken]

Yes that's a c-melody. Just take a look at the side F# tone hole... it has the c-mel placement.
Cool lamp though. And it was nice of the lamp maker to not ruin the sax but the case instead.

I don't believe that's even its case. It looks a lot newer style than that sax would have originally had.

 

[Hoosier Ken]

78809 would make it a 1921 which is probably about right. Since it like mine still have metal buttons my guess is that Buescher was still stenciling the series 1a for L&H even though they had moved on the series II for their own branding. Your finish looks from what I can see is C.