Details
An interchangeable cylinder
musical box on table by Nicole Freres, No. 44100, with six cylinders playing six airs each, ribbed brass bedplate, Alfred Hays transfer and tulipwood-banded rosewood veneered case with large inlay to front and lid, on matching banded rosewood table with upper drawer containing pen-tray and writing slide, above cylinder-storage drawer, on turned ebonised legs -- 39½in. (100.5cm.) wide overall, the cylinders 13in. (33cm.)
musical box on table by Nicole Freres, No. 44100, with six cylinders playing six airs each, ribbed brass bedplate, Alfred Hays transfer and tulipwood-banded rosewood veneered case with large inlay to front and lid, on matching banded rosewood table with upper drawer containing pen-tray and writing slide, above cylinder-storage drawer, on turned ebonised legs -- 39½in. (100.5cm.) wide overall, the cylinders 13in. (33cm.)
Further details
See colour plate IV