Saxophones Boosey & Hawkes alto

Bear with me- this is a bit of a tale. In around 1963 I bought a silver plated B & H alto with black buttons for GBP3! After a bit of fiddling, it was very playable and I loved it. What was particularly interesting was that the palm keys were articulated together, i.e if you hit the E RH palm key the LH d and D#/Eb keys would also open; if you hit the F key, the D, D# and E would open.

Stupidly I sold it a year later for GBP17 to one of the masters at my school, thinking that I had done something really smart - dumb kid! - and I've regretted it ever since.

Now, i) did I dream this because no-one I've ever discussed this with believes that such a sax ever existed and I've never tracked one down on the 'net and ii) does anyone have one for sale?
 
B&H saxes do come up every now and again. One of the members here has one, but hasn't posted in a while. & I seem to remember Stephen Howard having a review of one on his site.

Although keys are pretty much standardised now, there wasa lot of experimentation pre-WWII. And extra keys/linkages are often found. I think most of the variations didn't really add anything, and the all-mighty MkVI did a lot to standardise things.
 
Thanks for the prompt response. I'm sure this sax would have been pre-WWII. At that time, Mk VIs were the gold standard but totally unaffordable to anyone but a serious pro - about GBP120 new. The only people who had them were the legends like Tubby and Ronnie.

The B& H articulation actually did add something - the palm keys were very easy to play - at least for a 16yo learner! I have seen a B&H occasionally on eBay, but not with this articulation. And for old times sake, I would still love to get hold of the B & H that I owned then. Mind you, I would also like to have a Norton Dominator 500 that I had then - and that's probably not going to happen either if my wife has any say in it!
 
If it's the inter linked palm keys that's the interesting thing to you rather than the it being B&H I've got a LYON & HEALEY alto with this feature, think it's a martin stencil, it has the soldered on martin style tone holes,may be worth keeping an eye out for...john
 

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