Details
An overture musical box
by Nicole Freres, No. 43885, playing six overtures (William Tell, Zampa, Tancredi, Don Giovanni, Semiramide, Norma), Gamme No. 2624, with brass bedplate, engine-turned spring barrel, three controls, Keith, Prowse & Co. transfer, tune-sheet and rosewood veneered case with brass stringing, carrying handles, ebony, brass and mother-of-pearl foliate banding to lid and central inly motifs to lid and front -- 6½in. (67.5cm.) wide, the cylinder 15½ x 3 1/8in. (39 x 8cm.) diam.
by Nicole Freres, No. 43885, playing six overtures (William Tell, Zampa, Tancredi, Don Giovanni, Semiramide, Norma), Gamme No. 2624, with brass bedplate, engine-turned spring barrel, three controls, Keith, Prowse & Co. transfer, tune-sheet and rosewood veneered case with brass stringing, carrying handles, ebony, brass and mother-of-pearl foliate banding to lid and central inly motifs to lid and front -- 6½in. (67.5cm.) wide, the cylinder 15½ x 3 1/8in. (39 x 8cm.) diam.
Further details
See colour plate III