From website 2023:
I currently have Missenharter cornet #6210. It has been in my family for over 100 years. My great-grandfather William H Blake played it in the Warren Cornet Band in or near 1885. It was passed to his only son who gave it to my father Bruce in the 1960s. After my father died in 2015 we found it in the basement of his house. The valves work and sound comes out of it but I'm sure it needs work. It has a large dent in the piping that is hard to see from the side.
I have attached four photographs. Two are of the cornet, one of the mouthpiece+attachment, and one is a picture of the Warren Cornet Band. William H Blake is 8th from the right, with the large mustache, sort of standing in front, and is holding the cornet.
William H Blake circa 1885
