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PRESENTATION TRUMPET 

1853 MOBILE, ALABAMA FIREHORN

Presented to Charles P. Gage, Esq., Foreman, Mobile Hook and Ladder Co. No. 1 as a testament of the confidence and respect reposed in him by the company. Nov. 21st, 1853

Unmarked
Mobile, Alabama
20.5” x 8.5”
A rare pre-Civil War southern trumpet. Charles Gage served the Mobile Fire Department for many years. According to the Mobile Register: “his funeral procession in 1868 was headed by the Fire Department Band, followed by the members in uniform of the Fire Department with their colors furled and draped in mourning; and the delegates of the Fire Department Association of which the deceased was President ……”