Adolphe Sax's Last Patent: A Man Ahead of His Time

Plate I of Adolphe Sax&rsquo;s final saxophone patent, November 1880. Selmer was founded 11 years later and would eventually buy the Sax business and workshop from Adolphe&rsquo;s son. INPI archive. I recently purchased high resolution scans of the complete 23-page file of Adolphe Sax&rsquo;s final saxophone patent (he holds later patents for other things including electroplating!) from the INPI…