Collard and Collard

[Bill Kibby]

If you look at the Numbers page on my website
http://www.uk-piano.org/piano-gen/piano ... mbers.html

you'll see that the published information about Collard numbers is wrong, and these short numbers don't help very much. If you email me at that site, you could send photos, and I might be able to tell you more. Dale Forty will have sold it after 1873, perhaps secondhand. No-one can trace the life history of every piano, but there may be clues inside it. What is this signature? And what kind of piano is it?