Help with Piano Make

[spartacus8098]

Hi Can anyone help,  am looking at buying an upright Piano and someone has offered to sell me one, I have seen a picture and it says Remington London.  I have looked this up but can only find an american company and their wording of Remington is scrolled writing whereas the one I have been offered is just normal lettering.  Is this Piano any good and what is it worth??

[indianajo]

Before WWII there were hundreds of piano makers that bought the movement parts from suppliers, and quality can vary from great to awful.  The tone of a pre-depression upright will be tinkly, but so was the Beethoven era grand piano I heard on a German radio concert rebroadcast.  When inspecting an old piano, play every key to make sure none are sticky.  View the action to make sure there is no mouse damage, no broken strings,  the felts are not worn in the middle, the hammer shafts are straight.  Try a note repeatedly as fast as possible to evaluate how fast the action it.  Some are quite good, some are only furniture.  You may be able to repair one sticky key or missing string, but be aware of what you are getting into.  Take a look at the soundboard and make sure it has no water damage, is not warped, or visibly cracked.  Excessive rust can make a piano hard to tune, but a light surface coat of rust should be expected.  Don't worry about tuning, that will have to be done anyway, but if one note has the three strings in tune with itself you can evaluate the tone better. Try to see if the tone is even between the one string, two string and three string notes matches, as poor pianos do not match tone very well. Check the dampers lift and lower okay, and quiet the strings effectively.  Pedal linkage problems are common due to move damage, but this is easily repaired by amateurs if the damper action itself it okay.  
Upright pianos basically have no resale value, other than the wonderful time you can have learning to play on one.  They are more expensive to move than a 39" console, for example, because they weigh 100-200 lb more and take four men to move them.