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A forte-piano oratorio box
by Nicole Freres, No. 36358,playing four airs (Hailstone and Hallelujah choruses, The Heavens are Telling and Tanks (sic) be to God, Gamme No. 1691),with silvered Savoy & Sons tune-list, ratchet crank-wind and grained case with brass and enamel inlay to the rosewood-veneered lid -- 21½in. (55cm.) wide, the cylinder 13 x 3 1/8in. (33 x 8cm.) diam., circa 1860
by Nicole Freres, No. 36358,playing four airs (Hailstone and Hallelujah choruses, The Heavens are Telling and Tanks (sic) be to God, Gamme No. 1691),with silvered Savoy & Sons tune-list, ratchet crank-wind and grained case with brass and enamel inlay to the rosewood-veneered lid -- 21½in. (55cm.) wide, the cylinder 13 x 3 1/8in. (33 x 8cm.) diam., circa 1860