A fine and rare Organocleíde musical box playing six airs, by Ducommun Girod,
circa 1870,
Ser. No. 5919,
playing six airs including three popular works by Verdi, one by Donizetti and the ever-boring Last Rose of Summer, the mandoline teeth in groups of up to seven across the two-section comb with brass screw washers, on reeded cast gilt bedplate, under three-quarter depth dustlid, rear carved and fretted soundhole panel flanking finely painted scene of the island on Lake Geneva, tunesheet in red stained interior, in part grained case, the slight-domed lid with large and detailed inlaid spray of fruitwood flowers and winged ivorine Putti with ribbons, repeated to the front with ivorine griffins on shaped coromandel ground - 27in. (69cm) wide, the cylinder 17.1/4in. (44cm)
Ser. No. 5919,
playing six airs including three popular works by Verdi, one by Donizetti and the ever-boring Last Rose of Summer, the mandoline teeth in groups of up to seven across the two-section comb with brass screw washers, on reeded cast gilt bedplate, under three-quarter depth dustlid, rear carved and fretted soundhole panel flanking finely painted scene of the island on Lake Geneva, tunesheet in red stained interior, in part grained case, the slight-domed lid with large and detailed inlaid spray of fruitwood flowers and winged ivorine Putti with ribbons, repeated to the front with ivorine griffins on shaped coromandel ground - 27in. (69cm) wide, the cylinder 17.1/4in. (44cm)
Sold for
£4,000
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Condition: G(one foot loose) II 2
Category: Collectibles / Mechanical Music
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