German Graslitz Czech Heckel CZECHO SLOVAKIA" 1920 1930 prewar Kohlert Bassoon

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I am an honest seller. I represent the item correctly and fully in all record. There are however people that believe this is FREE-BAY and they can break something or decide remorsefully to do a return, fail to ask for more details, or even look carefully at the photos.
SO this is sold AS IS.  Please contact me for details about anything including the past tenon repair photos, close ups. I like to do this and I am here to serve you the seller, so you will be happy with this family heirloom.
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"The Vincent Kohlert instrument making company was established in 1840 in Graslitz, Czechoslovakia and produced bassoons based upon J.H. Heckel’s original designs. By the early 1900s the company had grown to 600 employees and produced a variety of woodwind instruments. Kohlert bassoons were considered to be some of the best available at that time." - Miller Marketing
A member of the international professional Bassoon Community offered this input:
"The country appears to read "CZECHO    SLOVAKIA".
To the best of my knowledge there were three bassoon makers in Czechoslovakia - Kohlert, Puchner and Riedl, all based in a German-speaking town called Graslitz (Kraslice in Czech).. "CZECHO SLOVAKIA" is probably the German equivalent of "Ceskoslovensko" in Czech, but the fact that CZECHO and SLOVAKIA appear to be separated suggests the very early days of the newly emergent republic as in 1918 it was spelled "Cesko-Slovensko", but the hyphen was dropped soon afterwards."
Henri Dubois is a 'stencil' instrument, made with different name added or supplanted to the original maker's name. They were either branded
distributors
and or
dealers
who supplied them direct or though third party sellers.
Another member recalls having a Kohlert  alongwith  the five coin logo which can be seen at the top of the distributor's name.
Unfortunately the bocal that came with the bassoon was traded for a two (no it was one) Selmer saxophone Balanced Alto) and a CONN 10M) in 1979 (not a high value then for Balanced Action) and the substitute for the bocal is not worth including.
The mechanism is very good. No play.
There are no cracks or chips bet the lover tenon was replaced in 1978. It did not affect the intonation or tone.
It can be done a bit better.
It needs a lock as well as a complete re-pad and recorking. However there is enough of the good pads left that by replacing the water cork and some adjustments and a pad or two a set up for evaluation is possible.