3304130. LARGE LATE 19TH CENTURY SWISS MUSICAL BOX - BELLS & DRUM.
Description
A large music box with an 8 air mechanism, striking on bells and a drum and with start/stop and change/repeat levers. With a songsheet to the lid and marked for 'Fabrique Geneve, Tambour at Timbres, No 1220', with the same number on the winding handle and to the base of the case. In a mahogany and inlaid case and in working order. Case 57cms across, 25cms high, cylinder 32.5cms long.Show more
Condition
Mechanism, in working order and the teetch and tips intact, bells and drum striking, the plate with the teeth is a little rusty in places and could do with a clean.
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Description
A large music box with an 8 air mechanism, striking on bells and a drum and with start/stop and change/repeat levers. With a songsheet to the lid and marked for 'Fabrique Geneve, Tambour at Timbres, No 1220', with the same number on the winding handle and to the base of the case. In a mahogany and inlaid case and in working order. Case 57cms across, 25cms high, cylinder 32.5cms long.Show more
Condition
Mechanism, in working order and the teetch and tips intact, bells and drum striking, the plate with the teeth is a little rusty in places and could do with a clean.