Antique Vintage Gonet & Cie Paris France Brass Trumpet Cornet w Herco Mouthpiece

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Antique Vintage Gonet & Cie Paris France Brass Trumpet Cornet with Herco Mouthpiece and Hard Carrying Case. As shown without mouthpiece attached it measures about 20" long and I believe it is a cornet but I know very little about these so use photos and description. As found but plenty to work with, the valves all move smoothly, the brass has an aged patina - please refer to me 12 detailed photos.
LOUIS GONET, FOUNDER
Thanks to his trading activities – buying and selling dry goods like tobacco and fabric, transporting wood from the forests of Vaud and stone from Meillerie in Savoy, near Saint-Gingolph – Louis quickly built up a solid commercial network all around the lake. Increasingly, his clients turned to him for information, ideas and, before long, capital.
In 1842, at the age of 21, Louis Gonet opened a Bank in Nyon. Focusing at first on foreign exchange and loans, he built up a successful business model in an area that for several decades had been experiencing a tremendous vitality.
A branch was opened in Rolle in 1884. In 1897 the Banque Gonet purchased a small building on Place Bel-Air, in the centre of Nyon, to support its tremendous growth.
Both a banker and a shipowner, Louis never gave up investing in the field of lake transport, and in 1854 he launched an innovative project for a "steam barge" designed to transport goods, under the name "L'Industriel". He was also strongly involved in developing the railway industry.
In 1907, the staunch pillar of the Nyon business community throughout the 19th century took his last bow at the age of eighty-six.
AUGUSTE GONET, TOWARDS WEALTH MANAGEMENT...
After his father Louis died, Auguste, already a partner, took the helm of the firm in 1907.
Auguste inherited a dynamic, flourishing business with an excellent reputation. Faced with the economic and social upheavals that shook the world as much as Switzerland at the beginning of the 20th century, he adopted a prudential approach, using the region's card and spreading the risks over the communes, companies and people who had gained his trust, particularly in the agricultural and viticultural sectors. Thus, he began a slow shift in the bank's business towards wealth management.
Auguste was active in local politics and in the Chamber of Commerce of Vaud. However, he dedicated just as much as his energy – if not more – to philanthropy, joining the fight against the influenza pandemic of 1918 and serving of the board of numerous charities.
The second generation of Gonet bankers died young in 1924, at the age of 52, but two years earlier he had appointed one of his sons, Alfred, as a partner.
ALFRED GONET, THE RESISTANCE BANKER…
Alfred Gonet joined the Banque Gonet as a partner in 1922 and became the third generation to take the helm of the firm.
Under Alfred’s careful stewardship, the Banque Gonet survived the Great Crash of 1929 relatively unscathed. He enjoyed several years of calm sailing and carried on the philanthropic tradition, by founding the health and rest home « Les Rives de Prangins » with Dr. Raymond de Saussure, the banker René Hentsch and the Swiss psychiatrist Oscar Forel, to which was also attached the well-known establishment "La Métaierie".
The rumblings of an imminent war began reaching the peaceful shores of Lake Geneva soon after. Many of his employees were called up for months on end. The bank becames so short-staffed that in 1942 it was forced to shutter its branch in Rolle.
He personally and financially committed himself, contributing to the accommodation of refugees or survivors such as Jacques and Xavier de Gaulle, brothers of the General, or Simone Veil-Jacob, for which he was awarded the Legion of Honour.
The post-war years were a time of modest but steady growth for the Banque Gonet,
TRANSITION EN RENEWAL (1958-1968)
In the first hundred years since the Banque Gonet was founded, three generations succeeded each other smoothly at the helm. Under their prudent leadership, the bank survived two World Wars and multiple economic crises largely unscaethed. Alfred's untimely death in 1958, which deprived him of the opportunity to take over the family estate, disrupted this tranquillity, but the Gonet clan remained united.
Alfred was keenly aware of the importance of preparing his succession, but his two nephews Bernard and Pierre only just graduated when their uncle died, however, and were still too young to take up the baton. On 27 October 1958 the bank became a limited company under the name Gonet & Cie SA. Out of the family hands in 1964, Crédit Suisse and the Société Belge de Banque became equal shareholders, which was the prelude to a series of mergers and reorganisations.