Rob, At 08:13 10/9/2002 -0700, you wrote: >It sounds like the guy who did this was a real winner. Best to my knowledge >Baldwin always cast the name into the plate. On some of those old Kawai >Howards they would install one of those painted plastic name plate things >onto the plate which look like part of the casting. I have never seen any >of those integrated shank knuckle things on a Baldwin action although I >suppose it could be a first. (Is there an official name for those things by >the way??) you may have run into an OLD Howard grand 4'8", or a Hamilton 4'10 or 5'2" ..and, yes, grasshopper, they had "pear" knuckles, as did most Baldwins until the 30's Conrad Hoffsommer PTG RPT, MPT, CCT Certified Calibration Technician (CCT) for Bio-powered Digitally Activated Lever Action Tone Generation Systems
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