Bob Dukoff Hollywood - info?

[singlereed]

I have acquired an old silverplated alto mouthpiece and lig that says "Bob Dukoff Co. Hollywood" on the shank which has two lines engraved at the lower end, and one above. On the body is stamped "B.D." in large letters, one side is stamped 4* and the other, B142. The baffle has just a slight roll-over and the chamber is round and fairly large. There is some plating wear on the table and the material underneath is bronze or brass. The bite plate which is rather worn with age is off-white and looks like some form of plastic. There are no join-marks (I have been trying to fnd some info and read some models were made of two pieces - well if this one was, there is no evidence of it). The whole thing is smooth, shiny and nothing like modern roughly made Dukoffs I have seen. It has what I assume is an original inverted silver plated two screw ligature. The sound is very sweet and controllable, not at all what I expected from a Dukoff. Can anyone identify this model, when it was made and say if it has any real value or interest?

[sjabariiii]

The tenor versions of the old Hollywood Dukoffs are highly sought after and fetch hundreds of dollars on ebay. I've never heard of one for alto, but considering they don't seem to make a modern version for alto like they do for tenor, yours could be rare.

[singlereed]

Thanks, I have decided its not my cup of tea so I have put it up on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2545963876
If anyone can throw any light on it, I'd be grateful so I can inform any potential buyers.

[kaliedoscope1]

I have acquired an old silverplated alto mouthpiece and lig that says "Bob Dukoff Co. Hollywood" on the shank which has two lines engraved at the lower end, and one above. On the body is stamped "B.D." in large letters, one side is stamped 4* and the other, B142. The baffle has just a slight roll-over and the chamber is round and fairly large. There is some plating wear on the table and the material underneath is bronze or brass. The bite plate which is rather worn with age is off-white and looks like some form of plastic. There are no join-marks (I have been trying to fnd some info and read some models were made of two pieces - well if this one was, there is no evidence of it). The whole thing is smooth, shiny and nothing like modern roughly made Dukoffs I have seen. It has what I assume is an original inverted silver plated two screw ligature. The sound is very sweet and controllable, not at all what I expected from a Dukoff. Can anyone identify this model, when it was made and say if it has any real value or interest?

I have a tenor sax mouthpiece like you described; the # 0n mine is B714, does this # indicate when it was made? I believe this mouthpiece has value if the batch number has any thing to do with it? I think there is a web site that can tell us when this was made.