Walnut ‘Organ Desk’ Antique Pump.
Estey Organ Company - Pump Organ RestorationsAntique OrgansAmerica's BestKnown Restorer of Antique OrgansAntiqueOrgansPickup and Delivery Available in the USA andCanadaJ. Estey Organ Company 'The largest pump organ company in America'They started as Estey & Green and were located in Brattleboro, VT 1855 - 1863; successor to I.Hines & Co., Jacob Estey and Hatsell P. Green, partners; the Main St. Factory burned in 1857, a new factorywas built 1858 on the site later occupied by the Brattleboro House; succeeded by J. Estey & Co.Then they became the Estey company in Brattleboro, VT 1863 - 1872; successors to Estey & Green,the original partners were Jacob Estey, Riley Burditt, Silas Waite and Joel Bullard; a new factory was built in1866 on Flat St. And the business reorganized with Jacob Estey, his son Julius J. And son-in-law Levi Fuller aspartners; as part of the reorganization Riley Burditt and Silas Waite organized the Burdett Organ Co.
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InChicago.A new factory was started in 1869 on Birge Street at the Dickenson Farm, later called Esteyville;reorganized as Estey Organ Co. In 1872 and as the Estey Corporation in the early 1930s, (after 1933), closed in1959. Estey made a folding suitcase-type organ for Lyon & Healy, (qv).
Estey made most of the chaplain'sorgans used during World War II as well as the model M-1945 introduced at the end of the war or shortlythereafter.The Estey name was later aquired by Miner Industries of New Kensington, PA, who made anelectrically blown chord organ. The name then became property of Fletcher Music Centers, Clearwater, FL, whosold electronic organs with that brand name.Serial numbers:1850 - 400 1879 -2 - 3 -2400 1880 - 1 - 2 -5600 1881 - 1 - 2 -9500 1881 - 1 - 2 -1 - 2 -1 - 3 -1 - 3 -1 - 3 -1 - 3 - 4 -1 - 3 -1 - 3 -1 - 3 -1 - 3 -1 - 3 - 4 -1 - 3 -2 - 3 -2 - 3 -2 - 3 -2 - 3 -2 - 3 - 5 -2 - 3 -2 - 3 - 506000.Out of sequence, may be in error.For more information click on the 'home' tab above.