[pontius]

From strictly an investment standpoint, that seems like not-so-great of a trade. No doubt it was probably a perfectly good move for you at the time for practical reasons, and maybe that trade was before the price of vintage links was pumped through the roof by the Ebay dealer/dealers. Did you trade with a well known mouthpiece dealer/collector? We're you led to believe it was an even trade? It has happened to me before.

 

[pontius]

Here are 3 of mine, to let you see
From left...long shank, short shank. Final one on right is the version just before the short shank . Issued in SBA era. Round throat instead of the horseshoe in the soloists.

The third one is what people refer to as the "airflow". How does that compare to the Soloists?