This bugle was sold by the firm of J. Howard Foote in New York and made around 1861 to 1865. Many of the brass wind instruments sold by J. Howard Foote were made by John F. Stratton. It is a single coil C bugle made of copper with a brass lead pipe and ferrule.
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