7 Oct 2010
13:00 EDT
New York
Magnificent Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata
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Magnificent Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata
Back to auction 18556
A Regina 27-inch 'Dragon Door' auto-changer disc music box,
Home Model style 33, circa 1900,
No. 47953,
with 12-disc caddy, 'sublime-harmony' combs on stamped reeded cast gilt bedplate, double crank-wind and disc change control to right-hand side, in well proportioned figured oak cabinet, with the plain top and stepped moulded edge above frieze, double movement chamber doors with elegant carved and pierced Dragon spandrels, scroll top columns with squared bases to the shaped rebated lower section containing caddy, behind titled Regina Corona etched glazed door with plain frame and boss corners, on raised squared plinth base, with 12 discs -
38" wide, 25"deep, 67" high
No. 47953,
with 12-disc caddy, 'sublime-harmony' combs on stamped reeded cast gilt bedplate, double crank-wind and disc change control to right-hand side, in well proportioned figured oak cabinet, with the plain top and stepped moulded edge above frieze, double movement chamber doors with elegant carved and pierced Dragon spandrels, scroll top columns with squared bases to the shaped rebated lower section containing caddy, behind titled Regina Corona etched glazed door with plain frame and boss corners, on raised squared plinth base, with 12 discs -
38" wide, 25"deep, 67" high
Sold for
US$ 24,400
inc. premium
Category: Collectibles / Collectors General
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