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A singing bird box by Bruguier
the fusee movement signed C. BRUGUIER A GENEVE and numbered 157, with stack of eight cams controlling the bird movements and song, the bird with coloured plumage and moving wings, neck and bone beak (one leg missing), the engine-turned and engraved gilt case with rear key compartment, blue Champs-levée enamel top with applied floral mounts and hinged oval flap enamelled inside with a bunch of flowers and outside with a river landscape (enamel restored) --3 3/8in. (9.2cm.) wide, second quarter 19th century, with later travelling case
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the fusee movement signed C. BRUGUIER A GENEVE and numbered 157, with stack of eight cams controlling the bird movements and song, the bird with coloured plumage and moving wings, neck and bone beak (one leg missing), the engine-turned and engraved gilt case with rear key compartment, blue Champs-levée enamel top with applied floral mounts and hinged oval flap enamelled inside with a bunch of flowers and outside with a river landscape (enamel restored) --3 3/8in. (9.2cm.) wide, second quarter 19th century, with later travelling case
See Front Cover