Lot Essay
An unusual feature of this musical box (apart from its unengraved tune plaque) is a long brass pin projecting from the right-hand spring bridge, serving to limit the travel of the cylinder.
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A fine key-wind mandolin musical box by Nicole Frères
No. 26517, playing six sacred airs, the two-thirds mandolin comb with groups up to nine, in rosewood case with blank gilt-metal tune plaque and engraved brass shell scrolls, mother-of-pearl and coloured enamel inlay to the brass-strung lid -- 26½in. (67cm.) wide, the cylinder 17¾in. (45cm.)
No. 26517, playing six sacred airs, the two-thirds mandolin comb with groups up to nine, in rosewood case with blank gilt-metal tune plaque and engraved brass shell scrolls, mother-of-pearl and coloured enamel inlay to the brass-strung lid -- 26½in. (67cm.) wide, the cylinder 17¾in. (45cm.)
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