Brilhart Ebolin Great Neck NY Tenor Mouthpiece

I do not really remember when I bought this piece. Got it off eBay - that I remember. I read somewhere that these were the pieces Lester Young was using (Tonaline though), so I wanted to try one out. Little did I know about Lester's setup then. The piece is beautiful although I have not been playing it for many, many years. There is a reason why it is still in my collection though. Wonderful mouthpiece, probably the best period for Ebolin series. "Great neck's" are getting harder and harder to find...

This mouthpiece is an earler model - having '4' stamped on the table, though it feels like 6* or 7 to me. Serial # is 48970. It is in great playing condition. Tip is immaculate, table, chamber, shank too. There is a tiny nick on the inner edge of the right rail when you are facing the opening. About 1 mm in size. Very small roll-over baffle has a superfacial scratch which you can see in the photo but cannot feel with your finger. Neighter of these affect payability in any way. And it does play great, like all the mouthpieces I have here - my "keeper" cathegory. Even, smooth tone throught the horn, easy control, easy to blow.

Here is what Theo says about these.
"One thing to remember about all vintage Brilhart saxophone mouthpieces is that the tip opening numbers do not mean much. I've seen threes that measured a modern seven, and vice versa. They were made primarily in five models:
Tonalin: The ivory colored model with the black bite plate.
Ebolin: The black colored model with the white bite plate.

Great Neck New York: Shown below, we have the Tonalin (white mouthpiece with black bite-plate) and Ebolin (black mouthpiece with white bite-plate). They had a medium sized chamber with flat sidewalls and a five digit serial number. They also had the name Great Neck, New York stamped on the shank and are highly desired mouthpieces. The first ones had the tip opening marked on the table. Later, they stamped them on the back."

Lost many years ago...