The date of a BOYD piano

[aspa.k]

Hallo.
Can you please help me with the manifacture date of my piano?
It is a BOYD piano,on the piano write also the word Paris and the serial number is 128742.
It is a vertical piano with chandeliers.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Best regards

[Bill Kibby]

I am assuming that this is a BOYD piano and not a BORD piano? I can't find any record of a Boyd piano having Paris mentioned on it, but they did receive medals at a few exhibitions. Is it perhaps on a picture of a medal?

When you say it is a vertical piano, I don't know if you mean an upright piano, or vertical stringing. Either way, many Boyd pianos are uprights with vertical stringing.

When you say "chandeliers" I presume you mean sconces (projecting candleholders) which suggests it is not much later than 1920. However, Boyd pianos were made by several factories, and the only ones I can recall with numbers like that were made by Brasted in the early 1940s.

Can you post some photos of the whole piano, or email them to me to post?

For clues hidden inside the piano, see
http://pianogen.org/datemarks.html