A key-wind musical box by Nicole Freres,
circa 1851,
No. 28336,
Gamme No. 671,
playing eight obscure folk airs, with single-spring motor, stamped single-section comb on plain brass bedplate, in red stained interior with tunesheet, in grained case with endflap, the rosewood veneered lid with musical instrument motif within shaped frame, bordered by quatre-lines boxwood stringing, (three teeth and one tip off), 20 1/2in, (52cm) wide, the cylinder 13in, (33cm).
