J & J Hopkinson upright grand

[Bill Kibby]

There are a great many of these durable Hopkinson uprights around from the late 1800s, and the number suggests about 1888, but numbers are not always that simple. The early ones published for Hopkinson have inaccuracies, so look for any exhibition medals that may be mentioned on the piano.
1877 Medal
1878 Medal
1880 #26917 Rudall, Carte & Co. stock records: Page 266: Hopkinson Ebonized Cottage piano number 26917 was entered into stock in July 1880. The cost price was &58 10s 0d, and it was sold for &89 5s 0d. to “Spencer”, date unknown.
1885 Medal
1888 Medal
1889 Medal.
1890 #47,400? By this time, the published numbers seem about right, but at some point, they had leapt ahead at an exaggerated rate, 21,000 in 10 years.