CIRCA 1770

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A fine twenty-five key barrel organ
Circa 1770
By Edward Pistor, 116 Leadenhall Street, with five stops, four ranks of metal pipes and two of wood, front-mounted crank and five barrels (nos. 3 & 4 spirally pinned) playing nine tunes each, in crossbanded flame mahogany case with clock in the swan-neck pediment flanked by giltwood male and female figures, with giltwood floral festoons and other mounts and gilt simulated organ pipes in two lancets with flanking triple cluster columns, on astragal-moulded plinth containing storage for four barrels (tunes on barrels 1-3 listed in door), the clock signed on the enamel dial Pistor London, with verge and fusee movement striking on a bell
32¼in. (82cm.) wide, 75¾in. (192.5cm.) high, 20½in. 952cm.) deep
the barrels -- 23½in. (59.5cm.) long, 4½-6in. (11.5-15cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

Edward Pistor is known to have been in business as a clock and organ maker at the Leadenhall Street address in the 1760s and 1770s; by 1782, he had apparently been joined by John Pistor. A large printed label on the inside of the barrel flap on the present organ describes the services offered by Edward Pistor at 116 Leadenhall Street; a hand written note at the base, now partly missing, reads And at the Turks Head, No. 10 Beauford Buildings in the......

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