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[50] No s/n, 1st: God save the Queen, 2nd: Home Sweet Home, 3rd: The Sea is Englands Glory

Johann Baptist Beha & Sohne, Eisenbach, for Morath Bros., Liverpool, a very good musical shelf cuckoo for the English market, the case with burl walnut veneers and ebonized moldings, the case front decorated with stylized floral and foliate inlays, contrasting line inlays and geometric Tunbridge ware panels, the top with stylized cupola with ebonized moldings, and contrasting vine and bellflower inlays flanking an oval door from which the cuckoo emerges, the base containing a large, six air cylinder music box, the case back with retailer's label and tune card, the compositions including "God Save the Queen" and "Home Sweet Home", turned wooden dial with roman numeral, white enamel cartouches, decorative carved and fretted bone hands, and 8 day, two train fusee movement with wooden plates, striking on a gong and activating the music box at each hour

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