£600 - £800
Y A SWISS ROSEWOOD 'BELLS-AND-DRUMS-IN-SIGHT' MUSIC BOX THE TUNE SHEET INSCRIBED FOR PICARD-LION, GENEVA, CIRCA 1890Playing a choice of eight tunes via a 7.125 inch pinned cylinder on a 51 tooth comb, with additional accompaniment on four bells and a drum with six beaters, the cylinder mounted into a gold-painted steel bed with ratchet-crank wound going barrel and stamped serial number 30 510 to the left hand side, opposing wheel train incorporating governor and activation of the various functions controlled by the selection levers to the right, beneath a hinged glazed dust cover flanked by CHANGE/REPEAT and STOP/PLAY levers to the right opposing an integral crank winder, the inside of the lid pasted with a tune sheet titled Tambour Timbres over a list of eight tunes including Sweethearts, Auld Lang Syne and March of the men of Harlech, the lower edge of the sheet inscribed Lith. Picard-Lion. Geneve, DEPOSE, the exterior with musical trophy marquetry motif within boxwood line-strung borders and ebonised ogee edge mouldings to top, over similar line borders around a musical score and laurel decorated transfer to the painted-grain front, the sides and rear also grained, on squab feet.25.5cm (10ins) high, 46.5cm (18ins) wide, 27cm (10.25ins) deep.
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