Heritage Auctions in Texas sold this Broadwood amboyna and giltwood grand piano (below) for $22,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) on September 23. Evidently it had been on quite a journey.
In a recent letter to the owner, the record keeper at John Broadwood & Sons revealed that this piano, bearing the serial number 16336, “was manufactured at [the] Horseferry Road workshops, Westminster, London, and completed on the 24th day of February in the year 1845”.