There is an interesting story of some of the provenance of this organ. My late father who was born in 1919 was always interested in music. He played in a dance band during his late teens to early twenties. When he was around 16 a neighbor gave him this organ. My dad told me his neighbor mentioned the organ came from the east coast in the back of a covered wagon with a member of his family in the 1800s. He also told me that it originally had a hutch on top of the organ which the neighbor and my dad had never seen. My wife and I were vacationing in Breckenridge one summer where we visited some local antique shops where I spotted this hutch sitting on a top shelf. I knew the minute I saw it that it was the right hutch for my organ. The carvings matched perfectly. The shop owner told me that she had found it in a dirt floored barn leaning against a wall. The part that was in the dirt was badly rotted, and the top arch was missing. She told me that she thought it was a top for a piano. I bought it and started researching the organ. I found an identical organ on the web with an identical hutch dated 1891 (serial# 122399). I have owned the organ since 2000 and since my retirement in 2015 I have begun restoration. The works needed a lot of attention with broken and missing wooden linkage. I pulled 27 reeds for cleaning. I have finally finished this and have a 100% functional organ including all stops. I am currently refinishing the cabinet and leaving just the right amount of patina (dents, chips etc.) because with the history of this organ I think they should be there. I will send photos of the finish as soon weather permits, and then the final assembly.