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Musical Boxes & Automata — Entertainment Equipment - Philips Auctions Australia
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| Philips Auctions Australia | |
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| Number of lots recorded: | 28 |
| Lots with images: | 28 |
| Prices available: | 28 |
Category:
Musical Boxes & Automata
| Lot | Description | Price | Image |
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| *** | A fine 'J.H. Heller of Bern' Orchestral burr walnut music box, circa 1870s, serial number 2294, a magnificent table top music box playing thirty six airs, with six 16 inch cylinders, five in original timber boxes, and comprising a crank winding mechanism,… | *** |  |
| *** | A fine Swiss Paillard & Co cylinder table top music box, circa 1880s, 'Sole agent' retailer Jabez Carnegie & Sons, Melbourne, the ebonised and burr walnut music box in immaculate condition and full working order, with six tuned bells surmounted with… | *** |  |
| *** | A fine walnut upright disk 'Polyphon' with fifteen Disks, circa 1900, Polyphon Musikwerke, Leipzig Germany, housed in glazed case with carved crest details, finials and pilasters, mark, of 'Polyphon' to the cornice, having a coin operated mechanism with… | *** |  |
| *** | A British musical automaton of sailors dancing the Hornpipe, circa 1880, the glazed and gilt frame diorama displaying two painted metal sailors with articulated knees and hips, who dance to a music-box version of the hornpipe, with painted exotic harbour… | *** |  |
| *** | A Georgian automatic music box church organ, 1805-1822 period, manufactured by Southwell & white, London and Liverpool, the crank operated music box organ in a mahogany case on stand decorated with faux organ pipes and having six stops producing different… | *** |  |
| *** | A fine antique table music box with an inlaid walnut case, 19th century, a crank and cylinder operated music box, playing twelve airs and having six, ornate bells with enamel bee and butterfly strikers, play list to the lid. Provenance: retailed through… | *** |  |
| *** | A fine antique Swiss cylinder musical box, b.A. Bremond, Geneva, numbered 18080, late 19th century, playing eight mandolin airs with bells, the burr walnut and parcel-ebonized case banded in kingwood and boxwood with a hinged top enclosing a conforming… | *** |  |
| *** | A walnut-cased 'Regina' music box, C.J. Heppe & Son, Philadelphia, serial no 34550, circa 1900, the movement in an ivorine-inlaid case of classical sarcophagus form (with sixteen discs). Height 34 cm. Width 55.5 cm. Depth 49.5 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | A fine inlaid Swiss cylinder 8 airs music box with gilded bells, unmarked, model n. 127, serial 51026, late 19th century, the single 6.5 inches cylinder table music box in an ebonised case with inlaid floral top, mechanically operated with a side crank, 4… | *** |  |
| *** | An antique music box, early 20th century, with stamp for L J Williams specialist in antique clocks and music boxes, Sydney, number 4564, in a rosewood case with cross banding and marquetry embellishment to the lid featuring musical instruments and sheet… | *** |  |
| *** | A Symphonion Schutz-Marke disc music box with six discs, circa 1900, Germany, maker's stamps to discs, the walnut casket inlaid with bird and foliage motifs to the lid, with decorative three-quarter pillars to the edges and cast bronze handles, the… | *** |  |
| *** | An vintage singing bird automaton, 20th century, probably German made, a small silvered 'Alpacca' box with engraved details, with key winder and a pop up oval lid enclosing a brightly coloured moving bird that emits realistic bird song operated by tiny… | *** |  |
| *** | An antique French monkey violinist automaton, circa 1870s, marked made in France M & C to musical mechanism, housed in a large glass dome above an ebonised base, featuring the well, attired seated monkey with his violin within a naturalistic rockwork and… | *** |  |
| *** | A German 'Singing Bird' in a gilded cage, mid 20th century, in the style of Karl Griesbaum two songbirds in red and yellow perched amidst foliage on velvet, with an ornate lobed base with relief ornamentation upon a textured ground and studded with red… | *** |  |
| *** | A mahogany 'Musette' crank organ music box, with rolls, circa 1870/80s, an American made hand cranked music roll player, housed within a table top box with a hinged top and fall front case decorated with gilt stencilling, the cranking mechanism and… | *** |  |
| *** | A German Polyphon single-comb musical box with ten discs, circa 1900, the 11-inch tabletop Polyphon in walnut case, the hinged lid with floral inlaid panel opening to a picture inset under the lid and interior mechanism with lever-wind, single steel comb,… | *** |  |
| *** | A Swiss musical birdcage automaton, modern, Reuge music, Saint-Croix, of typical form, the silvered domed circular cage containing two birds, one on a perch, on a plinth base decorated with a pierced cast metal frieze of foliage, putti, and birds, winder… | *** |  |
| *** | A Swiss domed musical automata, circa 1880s, a moulded and painted diorama of a mountain scene with a moving train with, carriages and a moving sailing ship in high seas to the fore beneath a part, painted and clear glass dome, the train, sailing ship and… | *** |  |
| *** | A Nicole Freres of Geneva rosewood cased music box, 19th century, with retailer's label for Keith, Prowse & Co, Cheapside, in working order, with a floral inlaid panel and stringing to the lid and playing ten airs, with play list under the lid, having a… | *** |  |
| *** | A fine Victorian walnut Polyphon box, late 19th century, Leipzig, the sarcophagus shaped walnut and burr walnut box with a stepped floral inlaid lid surrounded by foliate relief carving, the sides with panels and turned pilasters to each edge above a… | *** |  |
| *** | An antique table top rosewood cylinder music box, mid 19th century, unmarked but probably Swiss, the rosewood case with ebonised edges, box wood stringing and a central inlaid and coloured cartouche, the fully operational crank operated mechanism with… | *** |  |
| *** | A Songbird in a gilded cage automaton, post 1950, with trademark of Robert & Otto Eschle, a single red and black feathered bird emitting a realistic sonorous call, housed in a gilded cage with a cabochon jewelled base, with winding mechanism, to operate… | *** |  |
| *** | A rosewood and mahogany-cased music box, 19th century, Swiss, rectangular with floral marquetry in coloured woods within cartouche to lid, brass mechanics, hand winder and original list of play tunes documented under lid, (not operational and some wear).… | *** |  |
| *** | A cylinder music box, circa 1870, the lever wind mechanism in a faux rosewood hinged lidded box opening to an ebonised interior and view of the comb and brass cylinder. Height 12.5 cm. Width 35.5 cm. Depth 18 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A miniature Swiss French music box, 19th century, Reuge mechanism, with a Swiss mechanism in a French gilt bronze box, with cast decoration to the sides and profuse scroll work to the cover with applied jewels and a central enamel and foiled medallion of… | *** |  |
| *** | A small Swiss carved wood music box by Thorens, circa 1940s, the linen fold carved box having a spray of flowers in low relief to the lid, playing two operatic tunes from La Traviata and the Tales of Hoffman, label of Thorens to the lid, height 8 cm,… | *** |  |
| *** | Two wooden music boxes including three Airs Swiss cylinder, early 20th century, comprising a Swiss cylinder comb mechanism rectangular mini music box no 50, mahogany cased with three tunes including Lauterbach Waltz, operated with push button to the front… | *** |  |
| *** | A Swiss music box, late 19th century, a rosewood casket inlaid to the lid with foliage, initials and stringing, the interior with a comb and cylinder operated by an external key, height 13 cm, width 46.5 cm, depth 17.5 cm | *** |  |