John Brinsmead & Sons No.26541

[Tomrcook]

Hello, my friend recently bought a piano from a antique shop and we where wondering if anyone could tell us the age of it, we don't no much about pianos but its a upright John Brinsmead & Sons piano with the number 26541 on it, it also has S4307 on the inside of the piano.I think theres some kind of army badge painted on the inside but i cant be sure
Thanks for any help you can give
Tom

[Bill Kibby]

26541 would suggest that it was made in 1878, so it is probably a Victorian cottage piano, as described at
http://pianogen.org/victorian.html

It would be interesting to see photos of the whole piano, if you could post them here, or email them to me. The number beginning with S is probably a retailer's stock number.

I can only guess that the "badge" might be an exhibition medal, as described at
http://pianogen.org/exhibition.html

[Tomrcook]

cool, thanks for your help, I'll see if I can get some decent photos of it tomorrow and if I can I'll upload them