Another very nice & complete& untouched  example of a

World War Two

German Army 

(Wehrmacht & Elite Forces)

Brass Signalhorn

as carried by the 

Company Bugler

and members of the 

Wehrmacht's Musikkorp Spielleute

(Fife & Drum Korps).

Constructed in brass with a nickel-silver garland

and measuring some 11" in length.

it retains its original mouthpiece & security chain

(usually the first thing to go west!).

Manufactured by the famous brass instrument maker

Meinel & Herold of Klingenthal

(in Saxony in Eastern Germany near the Czech Border),

during the years of Third Reich, Klingenthal was another fine centre

of the military musical-instrument production

in the heartland of Eastern Germany's

Vogtland & Klingenthal regions.

Meinel & Herold, along with many other such small cottage industries 

located in this beautiful region,

had contracts to supply Germany's Armed Forces with

 bugles, trumpets & other brass musical instruments,

dating back to before The Great War.

With the advent of the Third Reich in 1933,

new contracts were signed from 1935 

to supply the new

Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine & Waffen-SS

with instruments to the myriad military Musikkorps and

for Signahorns to German Company Buglers.

With the fall of Germany in 1945,

Meinel & Herold ceased production,

but in the post-war years the remnants of the company

was revived and incorporated into a new instrument manufacturer 

in the new DDR:

'Klingenthaler Harmonikawerke'

Ref: 'The Military Music & Bandsmen of AH's Third Reich 1933-45'

by Brian Matthews and published by Tomahawk Films...

In a great, used condition with some obvious dents resulting from its

honourable & important service life between 1935 & 1945,

this is another cracking, surviving example of a Wehrmacht company bugle!

(B/W Images courtesy of The Tomahawk Films WW-II Archive)