Hello yet again Robin H You said (inter alia) " At the tail of the piano on the leftmost side of the plate is both a patent date - which is the normal decorative patent date one finds on the plate in various locations, along with what are nearly advertisements. It is designed to be read from the back of the piano - that is it is upside down if you read it from the front. Immediately below this is a date stamped into the plate thusly: 16.6/93. This is a date, as is the patent date stamped close by. Just below this date about an inch away is the number 2 which I take to be the scale designation." Yes - this is getting quite complex isn't it? It seems they use / and . quite indiscriminately. Phil Ford's is 29/3.79 (Nr.41136) Yours is 16.6/93 (Nr. not given) Barbara Richmonds is 7/8.D 3088 2 (Nr.165632) Mine is 25.10 C 1887. 5 (Nr.164082) confirmed as built in Hamburg... Priory School is 13.1.A 57 (Nr.161339) Jack Wyatt is 29/8.96 (Nr.87748) has a round tail & 88 notes Ann Stock's is 10 6 E 2189 (Nr.215889) which needs restringing...! so we're making a pattern.... of sorts. I'll just keep adding to it and maybe some sense will eventually prevail! Regards from the ex-Bush side of the Pond - are we going to be State Nr. 51? Michael G (UK)
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