Ungemarkt, Engerln in allem Bordüren

Many angels in the bordures /
top: lyra /
bottom left: cherub looking in a telescope

Maker of the movements: Cuendet, J. Billon (and others, e. g. Nicole Frères 50995)

Spieldosen / music boxes

[1a] Forte Mandoline Piccolo Harp

[1b] Nicole Frères N° 50995

[2] Timbres visibles

[3] Timbres caches

[4] Interchangeable 6 cyl.

[5] Harpe Harmonie Piccolo

N° 1904: Sublime Harmonie Piccolo

N° 2399: Sublime Harmonie (B. F.)

N° 2400: Danseuses Timbres

N° 6258

N° 6260 (?) (a hard to read four digit number)

N° 19895: Sublime Piccolo

Forte Mandoline Piccolo

1st tune: Bleue Danube

Sublime Harmonie (coin operated)

Sublime Harmonie (Musé Baud, for sale)

Flöte Zither

12 airs, 10 pouces, 1st: Le premier baiser

Cuendet N° 3316

Cuendet N° 35010

Cuendet für Nicole N° 47648

Railway station

[1a] Forte Mandoline Piccolo Harp

[2] Timbres visibles

27.5 cm cyl, case: height 18cm, width 55cm

[3] Timbres cachees

[4] Interchangeable 6 cyl.

Private ownership

N° 1904: Sublime Harmonie Piccolo

N° 2399: Danseuses Timbres

N° 2400: Sublime Harmonie,
Hersteller oder Retailer (?): B. F.

Schrammel
Millöcker

Ebay 2021 Dec w0

N° 6258
Variante: keine Lyra oben in der Mitte
Variant: no Lyra top center

Fahrbach

N° 6260 (?), at any rate a number with 4 digits

This closely-packed orchestral mechanism offers six bells, drum with eight strikers and castanet with six strikers.

Note that the cock-plate on the governor bracket has, in addition to the jewel-retaining hole, a close-by oil hole.

red arrow ponting on the close-by oil hole
(Ord-Hume, Music Box, Plate 113)

N° 19895, Sublime Piccolo

Bernard Novell: 8/123 Cuendet Sublime Piccolo three comb movement Serial N° 19895 circa 1896

three separate combs 44+44+35

Link to Bernard Novell

Forte Mandoline Piccolo

Lyra oben in der Mitte

Dirigierender Cherub unten in der Mitte

1st tune: Bleue Danube

Sublime Harmonie (coin operated)

Sublime Harmonie (Musé Baud, for sale)

Eingesehen 2022 Jul 29

Flöte Zither

12 airs, 10 pouves, 1st: Le premier baiser

N° Cuendet 3316

Cuendet N° 35010

Three mandarin automata as strikers for the 6 rack-mounted saucer bells. Each strikes the bells and turns his head with the music, creating a wonderful spectacle. The musical movement also features a drum with 6 beaters, a castanet, a tune indicator on the left hand side, and a zither bar. It is unusual to find the combination of these automata strikers with drum, bell and castanet.

The music box plays a selection of 12 popular tunes of the day with an excellent, bright sound. Tunes include Donizetti’s ‘Lucrezia Borga’, Gounod’s ‘Faust’, and ‘Les Cloches de Corneville’, as listed on the original tunesheet.

This is housed within a rosewood veneered case with a floral motif inlay to the lid, along with tulipwood banding and boxwood stringing to the lid and front, and gilded side handles.

Freeman No. 1279

Cuendet für Nicole N° 47648

Coin Operated Railway Station