Scientific, Technological and Mechanical Musical Instruments

18 Nov 2008, starting at 14:00 GMT .

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The Baird Television Company; A rare wireless, marketed to receive the Televisor signal, manufactured between 1929-1934,

A fine HMV Model 202 cabinet-grand gramophone,

An HMV model 194 cabinet-grand gramophone, Mahogany cabinet version,

The Gerald Stonehill Reference Library - Bound catalogues, roll listings, general player books and other noted related works - a collection gathered over many years:

An eighteen-key chamber 'Sacred Barrel Organ', by Theodore Charles Bates, circa 1835, 6 Ludgate Hill, London workshops,

A seventeen-key chamber barrel organ-on-stand, by Astor & Company., London, circa 1825,

An eighteen-key chamber barrel organ-on-stand, most probably by Flight & Robson, circa 1825,

A sixteen-key chamber barrel organ-on-stand, circa 1815,

A small fourteen-key barrel organ,

A good 17th Century and later 8-day longcase clock, with grand carillon movement, signed La.r[Lawrence] Tuton, Bristol,

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For all Sales categories, buyer's premium excluding Cars, Motorbikes, Wine, Whisky and Coin & Medal sales, will be as follows:

Buyer's Premium Rates
28% on the first £40,000 of the hammer price;
27% of the hammer price of amounts in excess of £40,000 up to and including £800,000;
21% of the hammer price of amounts in excess of £800,000 up to and including £4,500,000;
and 14.5% of the hammer price of any amounts in excess of £4,500,000.

VAT at the current rate of 20% will be added to the Buyer's Premium and charges excluding Artists Resale Right.

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VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.

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