This is one of those Selmers that hits the pleasure centers in the minds of Selmer collectors, serious players and devotees. It's an absolutely gorgeous, clean, original lacquer American-engraved Selmer Mark VI Tenor from 1962 with undamaged matched-serial neck and mostly original pads. The tone is dark, fat, powerful and projecting. The 100k serial VI's play just like the 95-99k serials with no tonal or design changes within 1962, so it's basically a 5-digit tenor but for less money than you'd have to cough up for the same thing with 116 earlier serial number. It's wild to me that you can still buy a beautiful, original example of one of the best saxophones ever for what, in the world of almost ANY other instrument (guitar, mandoliln, bass, flute, violin, bassoon, oboe etc.) would be the price of a lower level instrument. You can't get even a starting to be collectible guitar for this money, and a nicer early Fender or something would easily be 10x the price of a nice early Selmer. Violins are even more extreme, of course. In my book, all nice early Selmers and Conns are actually undervalued. I think in part this is because sax players tend to be cheap, and in part because for some reason, sax players haven't normalized owning several saxophones like players of many other instruments have. Would be nice for me if sax players became more like guitar players, where chasing the tone of a new/vintage guitar was a wholly-acceptable and approved obsession, haha. But for now, you can grab a gorgeous, beautiful, original, world-class, early serial Selmer Mark VI for a great price, and you certainly should. If I could afford to keep the nice Selmers like this, I certainly would. They are just so satisfying to own and to play.
