Ross and Hamilton london

[bubslane]

I came across this upright, cannot find any history about it the serial # that I can find is in the 48000, I was told it has a wooden birdcage and this thing does sound great. Any info and and age would be appriciated.

[MarkGoodwinPianos]

Are you considering buying it?
Trying to sell it?
Or just curious?

Please take 2 photos of the outside and 2 photos looking down inside the top lid. This will help give us a good idea of what you are looking at.

[Bill Kibby]

I expect you have tried Google, where all the entries for "Ross & Hamilton piano" lead to an adult site which has nothing to do with pianos! Serial numbers will not help with this name. Overdamper pianos were still being made in London in the 1950s. In the States, where they like to call them "birdcage" actions, most tuners wouldn't touch it with a bargepole, but there are still thousands of them doing useful jobs in front rooms around Britain. I have a number of firms on file called Ross OR Hamilton, but no sign of a real maker named Ross & Hamilton. I also have London lists going back to the eighteenth century, and the only Ross I can find there is William Henry Ross, who was in business by 1869, and continued to the end of the century. No sign of a London Hamilton. The most likely explanations are...

1). It's an alias made up by the retailer. Most of the Hamiltons were in Scotland, where pianos sold better if they had "London" on the front.

2). Ross & Hamilton were not really in London, and just put that on there to improve their chances of selling the pianos, in the same way. This happened a lot around the Home Counties, just outside the edges of London.

Any further clues will be hidden inside, so have a look at pianogen.org