Tax Stamps on Pianos
By Bob Conant
Dear fellow experts: Here is a new thread and something I have never seen written up anywhere. In restoring a number of player pianos over the years, most from the teens and twenties, I found that many of them have some official looking government stamps stuck to the back side of the sounding board.
Does anyone know the story on these? Were they a tax stamp? What was being taxed? Were they federal stamps, or were they state or local? (Most of the pianos I have come in contact with were in New York state.) Were they based on value or were all the same? Did they change over the years? Should we preserve them in a restoration? Does anyone know what I am talking about?
There -- that is the sum total of what I know about them. I open the discussion to the great minds and vast knowledge of the Mechanical Music Digest !
Thanks,
Bob Conant, Endicott, NY (Currently hiding out in Fort Myers, FL)
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