Vincent Bach Corporation Packaging during the New York era
These two examples below provide some interesting insights to how Vincent Bach Corporation shipped their instruments to dealers and customers. If anyone has examples of this packaging, please contact us through the website.
Vincent Bach Corp. Packaging of Trumpets - Bronx-era
” Bach insisted on a large carton, divided in half by a wall of cardboard. On one side would be the empty case; on the other, wrapped in smooth brown paper, the instrument being shipped at the time. He packed both pieces with paper shredded with a machine he kept for that purpose. I thought (at my young, inexperienced age) that an instrument would be better protected in the case and then placed in the carton, but Bach and Bundschu told me otherwise. We sealed the carton with bands of steel tape. There were two tapes on each carton, one lengthwise and one around the center of the carton. How anyone opened those cartons upon receiving them, I’ll never know.”
– Benjamin Ritter, Summer employee
Vincent Bach Corporation
Bronx, Summer 1937
Vincent Bach Corp. Railway Express Shipping Service - Bronx era
From the late 1940s to the 1950s, Vincent Bach Corporation used Railway Express to ship instruments to the western United States. This offered a more efficient method than using the US Postal Service for his instruments.
This example paper notecard was included in a Bach Stradivarius trumpet case and would date between 1943 (the 67 postal code introduction) and 1953 (Move to Mt. Vernon).
source: from the BachLoyalist collection.
source: shared by a fellow Bach loyalist
