Ok, I have some information for you:
The serial number 14nnnn dates this to a range from 1932 to 1938 as follows:
- 140164 - January 1932
- 141820 - January 1933
- 143643 - January 1934
- 145199 - January 1935
- 146673 - January 1936
- 148811 - January 1937
This is according to the factory records available at the Hornimann Museum in London who received them when the Edgeware factory shut down in 2001-2.
In the 1930s (and until the 1970s) a "New Standard" was top of the Besson line. Usually the same instrument was available as an "Imperial" with the Boosey&Hawkes label on it. This did not change until the "Sovereign" models came out in the early 1970s. Sometime in the late 1990s the "Prestige" line superseded the Sovereign as top of the line, though Sovereign is still a fully professional model. The re-use of the "New Standard" imprimatur as a beginner/intermediate name is a very recent change by Buffett/Besson. Previously, models with the "2-20" or "International" filled this role.
Check to make sure the Eb cornet is not a high pitch (A=452) instrument, as many English and Salvation Army brass bands were high pitch during the 1930s.
Doug
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