China made multi-cell horn(1803B)

[Elitopus1]

And there is the also the ebay guy in Europe who makes the wood or ceramic multicells for very decent prices. I have been considering a pair of 805's from him

[Steve Schell]

The best workmanship I have seen where multicellular cell throats join together is on the earliest Lansing horns circa 1936-37. The cell throats were soldered together then hand filed to meticulous knife edges. Most tar filled Altec multis are also pretty good.

I was able to inspect some Fletcher System horns years ago, the world's first multicellular horns built at Bell Labs in 1932, and the throat junctions were kinda rough!

[GM]

The producer reply: The 1803B US$ 3130, Shipping fee to New York around US$ 870, please let me know if you are interesting in it?

No, this is about what a pair of originals were going for last I checked, with some even including drivers! Thanks anyway. They really do need to fine finish the horn throats to a knife edge though if best HF reproduction is required.

GM

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....the world's first multicellular horns built at Bell Labs in 1932, and the throat junctions were kinda rough!

IIRC, they only had to pass ~5 kHz ~flat, so probably good enough, but by what? 1939? it was more like 9 kHz through a screen for Gone with the Wind, so would definitely need to be knife edge tapered like the later ones I've seen.

GM