<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4207.2601" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>I have just acquired an old piano and was curious as = to it's history.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>It has two decals (or whatever their called back = then) with this info on it:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>FIRST DECAL:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#800080 size=2><STRONG>Diplome D'Honneur Anvers 1885</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#800080 size=2><STRONG>CH. = Gehrling</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#800080 size=2><STRONG>Paris</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#800080 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Then it has what appears to be two locations to = either side of the above info:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#800080 size=2><STRONG>Paris                =         Melborne</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#800080 size=2>Argent, = 1878            OR 1885</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#800080 size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#800080 size=2>SECOND = DECAL:</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#800080 size=2>Holderness & Holderness</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#800080 size=2>105, New London, Oxford ST</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>And I guess it's a serial number of 7421 in the wood.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>It's not in the greatest of shape. But it works (mostly).</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#800080 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Bryan Pierce<BR><A href="mailto:bizbloom@hotmail.com">bizbloom@hotmail.com</A></FONT></DIV= ></BODY></HTML>