Original Item: Only One Available. This is a very nice U.S. WWI Issue Military Bugle, made by brass instrument manufacturer F. Millard Co., located in Detroit and Plymouth, Michigan. This maker was somewhat well known, and lasted under various names into at least the 1930s, from what preliminary research shows.

The bugle is made completely of brass, and is most likely in Eb or G, the usual key that bugles of the time were pitched in. The bell shows a brazing seam around the flare. The bugle is clearly marked on the bell with the maker, depot, and date:

Accepted in July 1917, this bugle had a very good chance of actually being put into service during the war. Condition is very good, with denting and wear commensurate with service and age. We did not test the bugle in any way, but there is no reason that it should not work. It has a cord attached to the hanger rings, but we do not know if it is period.

A great piece of WWI militaria, from a known maker of brass instruments. Ready to display!

The word bugle in the United States is often used as a generic term for many types of horns including the instruments used by the armed services, drum and bugle corps and by various other organizations such as the Boy Scouts. Nevertheless, bugles have always been specified correctly by the armed services and the suppliers and manufacturers of these instruments as either bugles (a conical bore natural horn) or as a field trumpet (a cylindrical bore natural horn over 2/3rds of its length).