Y A SWISS/FRENCH BRASS INLAID BURR AMBOYNA MUSIC BOXJEROME T...

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£700 - £1,000

Y A SWISS/FRENCH BRASS INLAID BURR AMBOYNA MUSIC BOXJEROME THIBOUVILLE-LAMY, MIRECOURT AND PARIS, CIRCA 1875 Playing a choice of eight tunes via a 11.75 inch pinned cylinder on a 79 tooth comb, set within a brushed steel bed with ratchet-crank wound going barrel incorporating stopwork and stamped with serial number 39387 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 title including J.T.L., MARQUE DE FABRIQUE, JEROME THIBOUVILLE-LAMY, 68 & 7- Rue Reaumur, PARIS, and numbered 39387, the exterior with elaborate central inlaid engraved brass scroll cartouche decoration to the burr amboyna veneered top panel within brass outlined kingwood banded border and brass edgings, over conforming brass line edged crossbanded front panel applied with a scroll cast brass escutcheon plate, the sides and rear also veneered in amboyna but without the decorative borders, on skirt base with brass capped upper edges and generous scroll cast feet.20cm (8ins) high, 57cm (22.5ins) wide, 25cm (9.75ins) deep.The firm of Jerome Thibouville-Lamy were predominantly makers of stringed instruments and bows established in Mirecourt (Vosges) when the Emile Jerome Thibouville married the cousin of one of his business partners, Marguerite Hyacinth Lamy, in 1867. Arthur Orde-Hume in The Music Box notes that they worked from 68 and 70 rue Reaumur with a later outlet (after 1884) at 7, 9 ad 10 Charterhouse, London. Early on they entered into an arrangement with L'Epee of Sainte-Suzanne as a supplier of music boxes, but then broadened their scope of suppliers as the business grew. The Paris arm of the firm closed in 1968. The present box would appear to be one of Jerome Thibouville-Lamy's earlier models hence the mechanism was most probably supplied by L'Epee of Sainte-Suzanne.

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