Yes it’s vintage. It would have come in the box with the slant sig pieces. Not sure how much they go for today, I sold one a few years back for 75 bucks
They seem to be going for $30-$50 lately on Ebay. I thought about getting one for my slant but I have lots of decent 2-screw ligs. I have to resist my geeky tendencies to want an original one though.
Do you know which models the paddle screws ligs were equipped with? I always assumed the paddle screw ones were earlier,.... like reso-chamber and early slant TE's but I'm not sure.
I know the Pompano ones came with a nickel plated one with a Hexagonal or similar hole in the top that framed the slant name. This was in the late 60s. Earlier ones could be different.
Well you have an old ligature with a T stamped on it that may well have been stamped on it by Link or, maybe, by this guy; https://stuffsax.blogspot.com/2015/05/
It is kind of fun to have the original lig for a fine mouthpiece. I was a repairman for over 40 years in South Florida (Otto Link territory), so I came across several of the original ligatures. I sold most of them, sometimes along with the mouthpiece. I still have one for alto. It doesn't have the "paddle" scfews, but it is authentic for a Florida Tone Edge alto mouthpiece. If anybody wants it, $35 plus postage by the cheapest method I can find. PM me.
The ligature in the original post is absolutely not a valuable Link ligature. Look at this T. See how there is no drop on each end of the cross-top? That's what the T on a "real" Link ligature looks like. I've been making them for a few years, so I should know. Lots of music wholesalers, music stores, Ebay sellers, etc. have been making proper Link ligatures over the years. I've now sold just over $1,800 of genuine Link ligatures as shown on the stuffsax.blogspot. It really irritates me to see that there are now counterfeit fake Link ligatures. And "paddle screws," what's that all about? With the "real" Link ligatures that I sell the buyer just gets regular screwed.
Seriously, if you look at Link advertising, there were 3 different types of ligatures used over the years, all of them quite common. There were 4 different types of screws used, depending on what the ligature provider had in stock at the time. Hate to say it, but it's just a ligature. Well, a little more than that. It's a ligature that fits. If you find one that fits your vintage Link, that's a Link ligature.
Well, Mark, they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I'm just wondering if someone begins to make fake counterfeit fake Link ligatures if that will somehow legitimize them, like the way 3 rights make a left.
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