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Lot Essay
The centre bell is purely ornamental, with the 'striker' being static and fixed to the bedplate
Details
An orchestral musical box by Bremond
No. 32750, playing ten mainly operatic airs accompanied by 16-note Flutes Voix-Celestes, optional drum and seven pictorially-engraved bells with gilt bird strikers, in crossbanded birds-eye maple case with bevelled corners, tunesheet marked B & Cie (the centre bell similarly engraved), with carrying handles and fitted ebonised low stand with shaped ends and turned stretcher -34in. (88cm) wide at plinth, the cylinder 19¼in. x 2 7/8in. (49 x 7cm), (winding ratchet and some organ notes defective, main lid-stay missing)
No. 32750, playing ten mainly operatic airs accompanied by 16-note Flutes Voix-Celestes, optional drum and seven pictorially-engraved bells with gilt bird strikers, in crossbanded birds-eye maple case with bevelled corners, tunesheet marked B & Cie (the centre bell similarly engraved), with carrying handles and fitted ebonised low stand with shaped ends and turned stretcher -34in. (88cm) wide at plinth, the cylinder 19¼in. x 2 7/8in. (49 x 7cm), (winding ratchet and some organ notes defective, main lid-stay missing)
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