Brimsmeade serial number

[John Lillico, RPT]

>Dear List:
>A customer has recently acquired a cottage piano aka birdcage action piano.
>It is a Brimsmeade serial number 38828. As it isn't listed in my Pierce
>Atlas, I was wondering if any of you (most likely someone in the UK or some
>Commonwealth state) would be able to look up the date of manufacture for this
>piano.
>
>Patrick Draine

Patrick,

I think you'll find it's a John Brinsmead & Son, about 1892.

John Lillico, RPT
The Commonwealth State of Ontario