Lot Essay
No maker's name appears on this musical box, which has a tune-sheet of a style associated with Heller and Bremond among others. However, F. Conchon's name was found under the comb during restoration
Details
A mandoline changeable cylinder musical box
No.6709 with six cylinders playing six mainly operatic airs each, with two-thirds mandoline comb (teeth in groups of up to five), in bonheur-du-jour form case of Louis XVI style, veneered in amboyna with ebony banding, box and harewood stringing, ormolu mounts, beading and gallery, with leather writing surface, bowed breakfront desk with cylinder drawer and ormolu-mounted turned fluted ebonised legs --32in. (181.5cm.) wide, the cylinders 13in. (33cm.), circa 1875
See Front Cover Illustration
No.6709 with six cylinders playing six mainly operatic airs each, with two-thirds mandoline comb (teeth in groups of up to five), in bonheur-du-jour form case of Louis XVI style, veneered in amboyna with ebony banding, box and harewood stringing, ormolu mounts, beading and gallery, with leather writing surface, bowed breakfront desk with cylinder drawer and ormolu-mounted turned fluted ebonised legs --32in. (181.5cm.) wide, the cylinders 13in. (33cm.), circa 1875
See Front Cover Illustration
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Next Mechanical Music sale
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Next Mechanical Music sale
Thursday, July 28, 1994