Selmer SBA Super Balanced Action 39xxx Coltrane Era Tenor Saxophone BEAUTIFUL!

For sale is a beautiful Selmer Super Balanced Action tenor saxophone! This horn is a prime example SBA serial #39,xxx with its matching 39,xxx neck. The horn was produced in 1949 which is the exact same year as John Coltrane's famed SBA tenor with the split bell key guards! This horn is being sold as not working, for parts category. Although this horn is quite beautiful the horn is sitting on old pads as well has its fair share of various scratches, knicks, dings, fleabites, heavy patina, metal wear of various colors, and other anomalies associated with such an old antique. The horn is extremely straight forward.  The biggest thing to write about is shown in picture #24 the lip of the bell has a ding, dent, patina area on the lip.  Included is a proper Selmer case with the logo still intact on the outside, however the entire zipper is totally broken. Included is the original SBA wood end plug which is worth a pretty penny.   These have a smaller internal hole then the Mark VI 5 digit w