At 21:01 6/10/2005, you wrote: >Subject: Goofy 1884 Chickering action advice sought....... > >Trying to resuscitate this thing for the hospital >lobby..... > >Is it possible to send pictures, or bring them to Kansas City? I have a >Chickering Square grand action about that vintage. > >Paul Chick, Sr. Paul, That picture looks like an early Edwin Brown action. We've got an 1889 Chickering at school with that action, except that it has a hammer height adjustment screw which looks like a broadheaded tack on the shank where you would expect a barrel. I haven't had my head in a Chickering square lately... JOE! did they put a repetition action in their late ('80s) squares?? Conrad Hoffsommer Early to rise: early to bed; Makes a man healthy, and socially dead.
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