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Click here to subscribeA MID-VICTORIAN JOHN BROADWOOD & SONS (LONDON) ROSEWOOD-CASED SEMI-GRAND PIANO, serial number 7478 (completed at the firm's Horseferry Road workshops, Westminster, 17th June 1871), model number 10, keyboard compass a to a, the octagonally-facetted tapering legs with foliate scroll-carved tops, brass caps and castors, with lyre-form foot pedal, 135cm x 227cm (approx) x 94cm high, (53in x 89.4in x 37in) (sold with a letter, dated 11th October 2003, from John Broadwood & Sons Ltd, tracing the serial number of the piano in response to an enquiry from the present owner. Having been completed on the date previously mentioned, the piano was sent out from Broadwood & Sons on 9th August 1871, having been purchased by a Mrs. J.J.Spedding of Greta Bank, Keswick. The list price was 125 quineas (£131-5/-) but was purchased for a cash payment of £118. The piano was sent by rail from Camden Town station in a specially-made packing case. Once at Penrith Station the last stage of the journey was made by horse and cart)
A Victorian fiddle-back mahogany piano-top Davenport, the fitted harlequin action rising superstructure above a hinged top enclosing small drawers and a pull-out writing surface, above four end drawers opposing four dummy drawers, the floral carved cabriole front supports on bun feet and castors, 114cm high, 58cm wide
Musical instruments. Couesnon & Cie, Manufacture Générale d'Instruments de Musique la plus importante du monde, 1915, 296 pp., a few col. plts., num. b&w plts. and illusts., orig. red cloth, rubbed and some damp discol., small 8vo, together with J. Wallace & Son Ltd., London, A study of Musical Instruments, 1912, 383 pp., one or two col. plts., num. b&w illusts. of musical instruments, orig. cloth backed boards, rubbed and some soiling, darkened to spine, 4to, plus four other catalogues of muscial instruments (Mahillon & Co., Bruxelles, 1908, Maison Leon Maheu, Tournai, 1908, Mustel & Cie, Organiers d'Art, Orgues Célestas & Concertals, 1910 & P. Zacharias, Leipsig, Bestandteile für Pianos, Flügel, Harmoniums, Orgeon, Einbau?Klaviere & Musikwerke, c. 1910), and six late 19th and early 20th c. catalogues of pianos (Broadwood Pianos, 1905, disbound, Das Bechstein Bilderbuch, 1927, Brinsmead & Sons, Cremona Pianoforte, c. 1885, Monington & Weston Pianos, 1931 and two Bluthner Piano catalogues, c. 1910 & 1930), b&w illusts. to each, all orig. printed wrappers, generally in good condition, slim 8vo/4to (12)
An Aesthetic Movement carved walnut bureau in the manner of Charles Eastlake, late 19th century, with piano hinged top and foliate carved panel centred rosette-flanked hinged fall, enclosing three-part tooled leather writing surface in front of pen tray and fitted stationery wells with arcaded pigeonholes and drawers above, the base with two frieze drawers over recessed doors flanked by turned uprights with galleried stretchers, the sides and back of full panelled construction, on four turned feet, 115cm high, 122cm wide, 49cm deep. See Christie's Sale 'Aesthetic Movement Including late Nineteenth Century Design' South Kensington 12th September 2002 67 for an oak bureau of identical design.