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#CHICKERING BABY GRAND PIANO SERIAL NUMBER SERIAL NUMBERS#
#CHICKERING BABY GRAND PIANO SERIAL NUMBER SERIAL NUMBER#

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How do I find out what year my piano was made?.

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Especially valuable are any brass flanges on the hammers and whippens. There is value to others doing repair/renovation/restoration work on these pianos. If the piano ends up getting trashed consider getting the lyre and the action off as well as the music rack, trap works, keys. I lucked out when I found one that came off another 1/4 grand. I had to locate a lyre for a quarter grand on which the lyre was a dummy/prop. If the piano is a quarter grand scale 121 it would have to jive with the years the 1/4 grand was built in.

#CHICKERING BABY GRAND PIANO SERIAL NUMBER SERIAL NUMBER#

I was going to suggest taking off the lyre and looking for a serial number stamped INTO the wood. It is not unusual to find workers names stamped in pianos. It makes me wonder if he sold Chickerings there too? Otherwise the music rack is the same as the original poster, with the carved acanthus leaves, but the legs on mine are round turned with brass bands on the bottom. i found a stamp on the lyre that says 99445, but underneath is a stamp that says "F.Anderson", which is confusing because as far as i could look up, he was another piano maker with a shop in Boston. i may have a slightly older one, but i am not sure. You say the oldest Chickering quarter grand in your database is #99474. Maybe someone can give me a good estimate for a time frame when this was made. I'm aware that, most likely, the original serial number got covered up or completely left off. According to Pierce, IF that is the serial number, would put it 1840. The only numbers I found were punched into the bottom-side of the keybed next to the lyre AND the same numbers punched into the lyre. I did an inspection on this old mahogany Chickering grand today, and I couldn't find a serial number. President, Shull Piano, Period Piano Linda, CAĪs to your question about date, the quarter grand was introduced in 1901, the 121s in my database are #99478, approximately 19. But all Chickering pianos are in the log books, even if we can't currently match things up.

Unfortunately, as I said, there are no case number entries. We hope to obtain a film strip digital scanner and find the resources to get the images scanned digitally. However, I have taken jpgs of the microfilm of the serial number books at the Smithsonian, and now the Period Piano Center has a board member who owns a set, as well, so they are currently on loan to Period Piano Center. Unfortunately I haven't found any books for them, either.

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On an aside, at some point the Chickering concert grands received serial numbers which looked like case numbers, eventually climbing up through 5 digits. I've succeeded many times in uncovering the serial number, if I know where it was to begin with (last week I gave my apprentice the job, and knowing exactly where to sand, I think he really got a kick out of uncovering the Knabe grand serial number from under the repaint on the plate!). I'll attach a couple of Chickering 121 photos of a piano we had in the shop a couple years ago. If it's not there, hope someone wrote it elsewhere on the piano. We HAVE found this for Knabe.as well as a book matching case numbers with serial numbers.įor many years (at least 1860s through 1890s), the Chickering serial number was placed inside the soundboard decal. We have never uncovered any log books for Chickering which have the case numbers (though I still hope they will turn up). Mason and Hamlin log books include BOTH numbers. I've wondered how far back this practice goes, possibly much earlier in England? At any rate, later Mason and Hamlin took up the practice too, except that Chickering recycled the case numbers and kept them in the 4 digit range usually, while Mason and Hamlin never recycled their case numbers, which were only a few hundred to a couple thousand different, creating great confusion and potential mis-identification. For over 50 years Chickering used both a case number and a serial number the case number was immediately given upon inception of casemaking, while the serial number (sometimes called the shipping number) was not given until completion. The number you found was the case number, which is usually found on Chickerings in a number of places, unlike the serial number, which was only put in one place, until some point in the 20th century.