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Musical Boxes & Automata — Entertainment Equipment - Gibson's Auctioneers & Valuers

$1,830
A French automaton clock, circa 1900, a working model featuring…
$1,242
A 19th century Swiss walnut music box, F. Conchon, Geneva with…
$1,220
A mahogany cased music box, by F.C Lecoultre, Swiss, circa 1845…
$585
An automaton of a man drinking tea, Austrian, circa 1880, 42 cm…
Auction House:
Gibson's Auctioneers & Valuers
Number of lots recorded:8
Lots with images:8
Prices available:8
Category:
Musical Boxes & Automata
LotDescriptionPriceImage
*** A French automaton clock, circa 1900, a working model featuring a husband and wife monkey shoemaker pair polishing and repairing shoes, on an ebonised wood base under a glass dome, with key, the mechanism 44 cm high, the dome 72 cm high ***
*** A 19th century Swiss walnut music box, F. Conchon, Geneva with a single brass cylinder playing six airs, contained within a marquetry and string inlaid box 14 cm high, 54 cm wide, 22.5 cm deep ***
*** A mahogany cased music box, by F.C Lecoultre, Swiss, circa 1845, an eight tune music box crank operated with a 33 cm brass cylinder and comb stamped with maker's trademark, housed in a mahogany case inlaid with satinwood stringing, the case 13 cm high, 52… ***
*** An automaton of a man drinking tea, Austrian, circa 1880, 42 cm high, 21 cm wide, 13 cm deep ***
*** A Swiss walnut cylinder music box, 19th century playing six airs and tunes 12 cm high, 46 cm wide, 17 cm deep ***
*** Two cased brass music box mechanisms, one in a walnut and mother of pearl shield inlay box, the other marquetry decorated, the largest 5.5 cm high, 12.5 cm wide 8.5 cm deep ***
*** A Tanglewood Union series 4 string ukulele ***
*** Objects, 1920's and later a collection of ladies vanity accesories and objects, comprising six pieces, the music box 6 cm high, 15.5 cm wide, 11 cm deep ***