Piano serial number dating / August Förster
August Förster piano serial number lookup
How old is your August Förster? Enter its serial number and we read it against August Förster’s own production records to tell you the year it was built.
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Type the serial or code from the instrument. We read it as you type.
Example August Förster serials and how they read
Made-up serials in each of August Förster’s formats, read by the dater above.
| Serial | Reads as | Format |
|---|---|---|
| 48123 | 1922 | August Förster serial, Germany |
How August Förster serials date
- One serial series from 1859 in Löbau, dated from the year the number was reached
- Serials jumped by about 16,000 across 1950-51, so numbers in that gap were never used
More on August Förster piano serial numbers
How sure is it
A piano year is a strong guide, not proof. The serial dates the instrument to within a year or so, and less precisely where output was small or a whole decade barely moved. When a serial cannot pin a year, we say so.
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