W.H. Barnes was a retailer who sold pianos made in several different factories, so numbers are no help unless we know who made it. 85 notes is not "shortened", it was the normal arrangement in british pianos for a very long period, up to the 1960s. See
http://www.uk-piano.org/piano-gen/datem ... ianos.html
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