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Thanks again! Great site, very informative! I'm bookmarking that one right away.

You write that the number, if a serial number, would indicate manufacture in 1908. Where do you find this information? I've searched the web for a list of serial numbers, but haven't had any luck.

A gentle swipe of a moist cloth revealed the same number stamped differently. It's debossed, or whatever it's called: The numbers are sunk into the wood by pressure, rather than printed in ink on the surface. Does this more resemble a serial number?

Looking at my own photos I realise the number and the name are from individual stamps; they are not aligned the same way in both places. As it has been standing in my mother's house before I know for a fact the piano has not been tuned in twenty years. I actually remember it; I must have been about ...

The number is 7270, anything else is a typo. It is stamped in two places inside the instrument, seemingly with the same stamp (which also tells us this Christensen-guy somehow has been involved). I just got the piano delivered yesterday, but I'll have a tuner look at it as soon it feels at home here...

DSC01558[2].jpg I just got an old piano and would very much like to know more about it. The name on the front is "Ferd. Manthey, Berlin-London-Florenz" and inside it says "I Andreas Christensen piano og flygelfabrik" and a number, "7270". Where and when was this piano ...