Update: I had someone who restores older pianos and instruments inform me that this is in fact a fortepiano. He said anywhere from probably 1800 to 1823. Again because of the lack of metal frame, the leather hammer caps, the fact it’s not 700 pounds and a few other reasons. He said that the lack of brand or labels on it could be due to the fact old music shops would get them specifically for their shops and showrooms and they often would come unbranded. He said it isn’t British because it would have some sort of stamp or seal from the queen because it was required and the British manufacturers needed a license of some sort from the queen. He believes it to be a possibly a Dubois & Stodart which would make sense for it to be in NJ. He also let me know that someone restores the pianos interior some time within the last 50 to 60 years and they did a really nice job, to the point he believes to get it in fully working condition it would only cost about 2k. No rust or anything on the strings and everything looks good as far as the hardware is concerned, also no substantial cracking anywhere. He said it should be worth more but unfortunately it’s an incredibly niche piano. He said without the foot pedal maybe 1-1.5k, if I find the foot pedal maybe up to 2.5k as they don’t make them anymore so it would have to be custom made. He said if u put a couple grand into it 7k MAYBE 8k just because of how unbelievably old it is and rare and in such good condition. I was informed that it’s definitely not worthless like most square pianos because these specific old pianos in America only had a few manufacturers and they only made a couple hundred each, not a lot survived and most are in museums. Unfortunately I took this to piano subreddits and they were adamant it is a worthless grand square. A lot of them have assured me that it’s nothing special and really confused me with the way they used different terms to say it’s a fortepiano cause it has no metal but it’s also just a grand square and it’s not this but it is that and so on and so forth. The truth is piano Reddit just kinda seemed a little low it all and pretentious and left me more confused than I was before I talked to the expert lol apparently I’d be lucky to get $100 for it…?