Hello Ric, Anne and Chris Acker, sometimes on this list, recently did a very nice job restoring a similar but younger (c.1880) Pleyel for an owner here in New Jersey. Albert. <div class="gmail_quote"> On Nov 26, 2007 2:38 PM, Richard Brekne <<a href="mailto:ricb@pianostemmer.no">ricb@pianostemmer.no</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi folks. Just ran into this instrument tonite... couldnt help myself so I bought it on the spot.  Wont say for how much as I really dont know whether I've paid too much or got it cheap.  Its functional but will need quite a bit of work to come up to snuff.  Pin block is more or less shot and I suppose the old board really has seen far better days. Looks very nice tho. The thing is from 1850 or so...  serial number 18XXX <a href="http://www.pianostemmer.no/images/Pleyel.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.pianostemmer.no/images/Pleyel.jpg</a> Anyone having any good words of advice for me please be sure to share them either in public or in private. Cheers RicB </blockquote></div>