Help in reading an engraving, please

[imperialbari]

I read this as La Rex, but that would be linguistically bad:

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Likely a stencil, so any reference to maker and distributor is welcome!

Klaus

[windshieldbug]

It could be that the horn was "tagged" by a member of the L.A. "Rex" gang, also.


If that we the case, I'd keep my hands off it, if I were you...

[imperialbari]

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[Dan Schultz]

Your interpretation is good but that is apparently one of the 'stencils' I've never heard of. Got some more pictures?

[imperialbari]

It is just a junked trumpet bell with a pinkie hook. Only the engraving caught my interest.

[butch]

Maybe it's an anagram for "Relax".

Butch

[butch]

L.A. Rex is a book by Will Beall: http://www.amazon.com/L-A-Rex-Will-Beall/dp/1594482659
And an online game about a tyrannosaurus rex in (no wonder) Los Angeles.

Butch

[PMeuph]

There is a daycare chain in the US called "La Petite". "La" goes with "Petite" (OK...a daycare center for one small girl), but the other problem is that the daycare centers are packed with a bunch (i.e. plural) of children...i.e. "Les Petits".

Judging from the logo, it could also refer to the academy... as in: "La petite académie" (i.e the little academy) French speakers will not find this unusual as La petite école (The little school) is sometimes used to refer to pre-kindergarden.

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As for the engraving.... ("Rex" is masculin in French, "Le" is masculin, "La" is féminin... but you already knew that)

[butch]

"Rex" is masculin in French

I don't wanna be a smartass, but "Rex" is Latin not French. "King" in French is "Roi".
While writing the above, I had an idea. Maybe it's a "King" stencil.

[imperialbari]

LA Rex would not have stirred my curiosity. I doubted my own reading of the L and of the a.

Ib is an old Danish version of Jacob not known elsewherke but for the other Nordic countries. Ibsen being Ib's son.

Once a German professor at a music camp wondered about one camper named Ib Hansen. The professorý asked who was #1-b Hansen. All Danes except one found this very funny. The one not getting the fun was blind. The Braillé system only has one set of numerals, so explaing the differences between Roman numerals and alphanumeric numerals to that person became quite a task for his normal-vision partner.

[robcat2075]

According to Google Translate, "La Rex" is French for... "The Rex"!

It probably is a linguistically incorrect attempt to endow the instrument with the romance of foreign origin.

[PMeuph]

"Rex" is masculin in French

I don't wanna be a smartass, but "Rex" is Latin not French. "King" in French is "Roi".
While writing the above, I had an idea. Maybe it's a "King" stencil.

Wrong, you wouldn't be a good smartass...

Rex is Latin and French....

http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/rex" target="_blank
http://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/fr ... =rex#68444" target="_blank

I never said Rex was King, I just said it was masculin.

[butch]

Wrong, you wouldn't be a good smartass...
Rex is Latin and French….

Mea culpa. When I read the word Rex, my first thought was, that it's Latin. And who (native French speaking persons included) knows that Rex is a cat- or rabbit-race?

I read this as La Rex, but that would be linguistically bad.

I think you read it right. And you're right that it doesn't make any sense, as in Latin there are no articles.

Ave
Butch

[PMeuph]

Wrong, you wouldn't be a good smartass...
Rex is Latin and French….

Mea culpa. When I read the word Rex, my first thought was, that it's Latin. And who (native French speaking persons included) knows that Rex is a cat- or rabbit-race?

As a Native french-speaker, I probably wouldn't know, if there weren't cat-people in my family...

I read this as La Rex, but that would be linguistically bad.

I think you read it right. And you're right that it doesn't make any sense, as in Latin there are no articles.

Ave
Butch

Salut Jules!

[kontrabass]

I found this link through google.

http://www.middlehornleader.com/Evoluti ... isting.htm" target="_blank

Scroll down:
"Buglecraft, Inc. - "Boy Scout," "Drum Major," "Rex," "Rexcraft," "Rexcraft/Official Bugle,"U.S. Regulation"
New York 19330-present. Purchased the company known as "Rexcraft" in 1933 and began selling a brad name called "Rexcraft." Imported regulation bugles for military, bands, corps, etc. Evidence also exists of domestic bugle manufacture. Distributor of "Official" Boy Scout Bugle. In 1985, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) discontinued its approval of the "Rexcraft" model in favor of a new "U.S. Regulation" model. In 1986, the BSA chose to discontinue any official bugle for scouts. As of 1996, located in Long Island City, NY, the company still sells brass bugles, whistles, fifes, and drum shells."

This looks like it might explain the "Rex" but not the "La".
Unless it could be short for "Louisiana"?