23rd Feb, 2013 9:00 GMT/BST

Scientific & Musical Sale

 
  Lot 1150
 

1150

An Unusual 19th Century Swiss Cylinder Music Box, with a 16cm brass cylinder and single steel...

An Unusual 19th Century Swiss Cylinder Music Box, with a 16cm brass cylinder and single steel comb movement playing ten airs, with zither attachment, lyre shaped tune marker, three bells in sight with butterfly strikers, ratcheted brass winding arm, lithographed pictorial tune sheet to back, in an upright walnut cabinet, with glazed door flanked by two turned pillars, glazed top section, stop/start and change/repeat levers to side, 44cm wide by 45cm high (a/f)

Sold for £680
Estimated at £200 - £300


 

As found, not working, teeth intact

 


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Auction: Scientific & Musical Sale, 23rd Feb, 2013

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