Can you identify this tuba from 1919? IDENTIFIED?

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Re: Can you identify this tuba from 1919? IDENTIFIED?

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For what it's worth, I can't find any pictures of Mahillon or Couesnon tubas with a cavalry dingus on the bottom.
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Donn wrote:For what it's worth, I can't find any pictures of Mahillon or Couesnon tubas with a cavalry dingus on the bottom.
Is that the little nub at the base of the bottom bow?

Thanks so much, Donn, for continuing to poke around!
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