A key-wind musical box by F. Nicole
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A key-wind musical box by F. Nicole

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A key-wind musical box by F. Nicole
No. 14747, playing twelve popular and operatic airs (two-per-turn), the bedplate stamped 014750 : 14747 and the comb stamped F. Nicole, in plain fruitwood case with exposed controls and early (replacement) hand-written tune-sheet -- 16½in. 943cm.) wide, the cylinder 9½in. (24cm.) x 2¼in. (5.5cm.) diam., (two teeth missing and one repaired, dampers defective)
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Lot Essay

The hand-written tune-sheet, an early replacement, is headed Musique de Nicole, Freres, a Geneve. Track Five is 'Home Sweet Home (with bells)' - the bells reflected in the pronounced piccolo pinning on this tune. The first part of the serial number was probably a factory error (1475 being blanked on either side with an O) as the second number 14747 appears stamped once on the bedplate and twice on the underside of the case.

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