Odd ball TONEKING

[FredNickM]

I just purchased a Keilwerth TONEKING tenor. It's got the makings of a Keilwerth - "THE BEST IN THE WORLD" stamp and of course "TONEKING" on the bell engraving but the weird thing which I have never seen before is the tone hole chimeneas. They are not the usual rolled tone holes. These are a bit hard to describe. They aren't straight nor are they bevelled like the older and newer Martin horns. These are straight till about a couple of mm before the opening where they have a slightly smaller, maybe a mm, ring on top of the tonehole. I'd say they are about 2-3 mm tall.
Also, on the bell below the TONEKING engraving is the cursive word " POLO " , I think. I say that because it is in a weird style of cursive but that's probably what it says.
I'm guessing because it has another name under the TONEKING engraving that it is some sort of stencil or 2nd line horn of Keiwerth's TONEKING.
I've spent some time checking info on the line but nothing comes up.
ANY INFO would be appreciated.
Thanks
fm

 

[murrayatuptown]

I thought I'd be late to the answer party.

All I had to add was that s/n 20303 in in the tables as 1949.

Then I wondered if the open 'o' s in POLO were other letters like u or i. I wondered if the second one was 'dotted', but zooming in, that just looks smaller, like a mark.

So then I typed saxophonist Polo into Google.

There was a Paul D. "Polo" Barnes and his Polo Players.

Polo Barnes - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Pursue that further, as it's inconclusive.

 

[Helen]

Don't know how I missed this. Sigh...

Sorry 'bout that, but in case you still care, here is the answer on my website. BTW, it is very well indexed on Google and other search engines, so I am assuming you should have found the answer by now.

JK - Nauheim - Bassic Sax | Bassic Sax

JK - Nauheim, Explores the Julius Keilwerth's company history from Jan. 1947 until it was sold to Boosey & Hawkes in 1988.

bassic-sax.info

The fact is that when Julius Keilwerth first set up his shop in Nauheim, after he was forced to move from Graslitz after WWII, he didn't have the machinery to make rolled tone holes. Therefore he made bevelled tone holes instead. Plane and simple.

And it does not say Polo, it is Solo.