Chapter 14

The left and right part dominating: Light towers on each side

Die linke und rechte Seite dominieren das Bild: Helle Türme auf jeder Seite

Printed by Picard-Lion, Genève

Cuendet, Heller, MMC, Paillard, Reuge (CH72)

Featured as terrace at night in the Cuendet catalogue, but on small photos the towers are much more significant!


Spieldosen / music boxes


[1] Tambour Timbres, 10 airs, [2] 1st: Mikado, [3] Mandoline Tremolo, [4] Forta Piccolo", 20 airs, [5] Timbres en Vue, 10 airs, [6] 8 airs, [7] Trommel & Glockenschlag, 10 airs, [8] Bells in View, 10 airs, [9] Rechange Interchangeable, 8 airs, [10] 8 airs, [11] , [12] Tambour Timbres, J.H. Heller Bern, [13] Interchangeable, 1st: Boccacio, 24 airs, [14] Paillard Cylinder Music Box, 10 airs, [15] Zigeunerbaron, 8 airs, [16] 8 airs, [17] Sublime Harmonie Longue Marche, [18] Zither Harmonique, [19] , [21] The Gondoliers, [22] When other lips, [23] Tambour, Timbres, [24] Bells in sight, [25] Timbres, 10 Airs, [26], [27] Bells in sight, 8 Airs,
[28] Sea-Saw-Valse, 8 Airs,
[29] Adelheid, 8 Airs,
[30] Little Annie Tooney,
[31] 2nd: Oh honey my honey
[32] Timbres, 1st: Oh honey my honey
[33] 31 notes

213: Tambour, Timbres, 10 Airs, 2206, 7th: Marching, 2622, 2nd: Stephanie, 3155, 3686: 8 airs, 3746, 1st: A travers Bois, 3989, 1st: Bonnie Dundee, 3rd: The Mikado, 4163, 8 airs, 4348: Forte Piccolo, 4564: Forte Piccolo, 4683, 2nd: Rock a bye Baby, 4869: Sublime Harmonie, 6 airs, 6455, 1st: The Washington Post, 6782: 6 airs, 7000: 8 airs, 9266: 6 airs,

12476, 1st: Gasparone, 13377: Timbres, 8 airs, 14122, 6th: Carmen, 14436, 1st: I dont want to play..., 15228: Fatal Wedding, Faust up to date , 15390, 16263, 4th: For me! For me, 17621: 8 airs, 18484, 19004: Annie Laurie,

20733: 12 airs, 28636: Timbres en Vue, 29843: 12 airs, 29993: Timbres en Vue,

30080: Timbres en Vue, 8 airs, 31432: 8 airs, 31488: Tambour Timbres, Lith. Picard Lion, Geneve, Dutch Auction Company, 8 airs, 31580: Timbres en Vue, 8 airs, 31807: 8 airs, 31935: Timbres en vue, 32079: 8 airs, 32083: 8 airs, 32191, 5th: The Mikado, 6 airs, 32814, Timbres en Vue, 5th: Home sweet home, 33045, 8th: Sister Mary, 33077: Tambour Timbres, 5th: Blue bells of Scotland, 33085: Cuendet, 8 airs, 33407, 2nd: Martha, 33409, 8th: The Mikado, 8 airs, 33455, 4th: Home sweet home, 33789, 1st: Eldorado, 2nd: Stephanie (Gavotte), 33808, 3rd: Tarara Boom, 8th: Eldorado, 33827, 3rd: Eldorado, 6th: Stephanie, 7th: Sister Mary..., 34465: Tambour, Timbres, Fortissimo, Jaccard du Grand, 34454, 12th: The Mikado, 34593, 2nd: Stephanie-Gavotte., 36141: 12 airs, 36415: Timbres en Vue, 8 airs, 36644: Timbres en Vue, 12 airs, 38793: 8 airs, 39387, 5th: Ta Ra Ra Boom, 39413: 8 airs,

40169: 6 airs, 51233: 8 airs, 60712: 6 airs


[1] No number:Tambour Timbres ,Made in Switzerland, 10 airs


[2] No number, 1st: Mikado, 8 airs


[3] No number: Mandoline Tremolo, Kaminski Auctions


[4] No number: Smith Auctions, "Forta Piccolo", 20 airs


[5] No number: Timbres en Vue, Lankes Auktionen, 10 airs


[6] No number: Il Ponte Auction Houe, 8 airs


[7] No number: Grommel & Glockenschlag, Cuendet, Auction Team Breker, 10 airs

©Nr. 82/89, vermutlich von Cuendet, 10 populäre Melodien und Teile aus Opern, begleitet von Trommel und 5 Glocken (jeweils abschaltbar), 61 Töne im Stahlkamm, 13 Zähne für die Begleitinstrumente (beide Kämme komplett), vernickelte Mechanik, doppelter Federwerkmotor, Cuendet-Melodienblatt mit aufgeklebter Titel­liste, lasiertes Gehäuse, furnierter Deckel mit Einlegearbeit (Vogelmotiv), Gehäusebreite 63 cm, Walzenbreite 33 cm, gut spielender Zustand. Eine gut arrangierte Walzenspieldose mit lebhaften Begleitinstrumenten.


[8] No number: Type writer iused to sigh, Bells in View, 10 airs


[9] No number: Rechange Interchangeable, Forte, Picolo, Zither, Walzenspieldose, 8 airs


[10] No number: Noniheimlliebe, Lith. Picard Lion, Geneve, Greenridgewoodworks, 8 airs

ebay 2021 December 14


[11] No number: Weissstauff


[12] No number: Tambour Timbres, J.H. Heller Bern, Walzenspieldose mit Trommel + Glocken, 8 airs


[13] No number: French Cuendet Interchangeable, 24 airs

21.5x75x28.5 cm

©interchangeable music box by French maker Cuendet, playing 11" cylinders, eight tunes each with the original tune card. There is a second well constructed case that holds an additional two cylinders giving you three in total. The music box case is constructed of walnut veneers with multi-wood inlay ebonized boxwood trim. Condition shows little signs of wear, some very light surface scratches to the finish, light fading to the lid inlay, but nothing that distracts from the overall appearance of this music box. A great example of an obscure French makers cylinder music box. Condition: (Very Good). Dimensions: Largest: 29 - 1/2" x 11 - 1/4" x 8 - 1/2".


[14] No number: Paillard Cylinder Music Box, 10 airs


[15] No number: Zigeunerbaron, 8 airs


[16] No number:2nd Dorothy, Ahlers & Ogletree, 8 airs


[17] Sublime Harmonie Longue Marche von Mojon, Manger & Co

12 tunes. The parallel twin coaxial motors – four in all – justified a plaque on the bedplate reading:

This Musical Box Is Guaranteed to Play Two and a Half Hours When Once Fully Wound Up

Patented September 1879. This was Aubert´s British Patent number 3711. (Ord-Hume, Music Box, Plate 117)


[18] No number: Zither Harmonique


[19] No number:


[21] No number: The Gondoliers


[22] No number: When other lips, 8 airs


[23] No number: Tambour, Timbres, 10 airs


[24] No number: Bells in sight, 8 airs


[25] No number: Timbres, 10 airs


[26] No number, Cute little Cuendet is playing like a champ! Here it is playing Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay from 1891.


https://www.facebook.com/Darrensmusicalboxes/ videos/500791505577166 Cute little Cuendet is playing like a champ! Here it is playing Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay from 1891.


[27] No number: Bells in sight, 8 airs


[28] No s/n, Sea Saw Valse (Growe)



[29] No s/n, Du schöne Adelheid


Bornand Music Box Specialists



Ebay 2023 Feb 26


[30] 1st: Little Annie Rooney



[31] 2nd: Oh honey my honey


Ebay 2023 Jun 22


[32] Timbres, 1st: Oh honey my honey


Ebay 2023 Aug 23


[33] 31 notes


Ebay 2023 Sept 25


No. 213: Tambour, Timbres, 10 Airs

©Bottom of the song list reads "Lith Picard-Lion Geneve." Dimensions: 21.5"L x 12"W x 10"H


No. 2206, 7th: Marching, 8 Airs


Picard Lion


No. 2622, 2nd: Stephanie, 6 airs


No. 3155: Jewellery Art & Antiques, 8 airs


No. 3686: Wayfreight, 8 airs

©Ebay 2021 Dec 22


No. 3746: 1st: A travers Bois


No. 3989: 1st: Bonnie Dundee, 3rd: The Mikado


11.25 cm cylinder - 36cm wide


No. 4163: Junod, Antique Swiss, Thtee Bells in Sight, 8 airs 19th Century


No. 4348: Forte Piccolo, Lith. Picard Lion, 6/a 5/2 airs


No. 4564: Forte Piccolo, 6 airs


Ebay 2023 Aug 18


No. 4683: Hersteller Cuendet, 1892, 2nd: Rock a bye Baby

©Hersteller Cuendet 1892, Schweiz. Es handelt sich hier um eine sehr seltene Spieldose mit einem dicken Zylinder, 7,8 cm Durchmesser. Die gebräuchlichste Durchmesserverwendung waren 5,5 cm. Mit diesem außergewöhnlich dicken Zylinder können 20 Lieder abgespielt werden, je Umdrehung zwei.


No. 4869: Sublime Harmonie, 6 airs


No. 6455, 1st: The Washington Post, 6 airs


No. 6782: 6 airs


No. 7000: 8 airs


serial No. *7000, playing a selection of music hall, traditional English and rousing folk airs, single spring motor and single-section comb, three-quarter length zither attachment, large colour lithographed tunesheet, in grained case with veneered lid bearing simple inlay - 15in. (38cm) wide, the cylinder 4 1/2 in. (11 cm)


No. 9266: So wie du, 6 airs


No. 12476


Musical clock base with four-air key-wind movement, no. 12476, cylinder 7¾ in. (20 cm), base altered, four missing teeth, bent pins, one governor fan missing (Auction Team Breker)


Auction Team Breker 2022 Nov 5th, lot 317


No. 13377: Timbres, 8 airs


No. 14122, 6th: Carmen, 12 airs


Ebay 2022 Nov 11


No. 14436, 1st: I dont want to play..., 6 airs


No. 15228, 6 airs

1st: Fatal Wedding (Davis)

3rd: Faust up to date (1888 or later, Lutz)


Ebay 2022 Apr 6


No. 15390: 8 airs

 


No. 16263, 1st: She was one of the early birds, 4th: For me! For me, 8 airs


No. 17621: 8 airs


No. 18484: Indicateur, 10 airs


No. 19004: Annie Laurie


No. 20733: 12 airs


No. 28636: Timbres en Vue, Lith. Picard Lion, Geneve, 8 airs


No. 29843: Auktionshaus Dr. Eder, 12 airs


No. 29993: Timbres en Vue, 8 airs


22 high 42.5cm wide 27cm deep


No. 30080: Timbres en Vue, 8 airs


No. 31432: Lith. Picard Lion, Geneve, 8 airs

©16" x 7" x 5 3/4"


No. 31488: Tambour Timbres, Lith. Picard Lion, Geneve, Dutch Auction Company, 8 airs


No. 31580: Timbres en Vue, 8 airs


No. 31807: Ahiers & Ogletree, 8 airs


No. 31935: Timbres en vue


Comb with 62 teeth, Start/Stop and Change/Repeat levers; painted wooden case with musical inlay on the lid and faux marquetry on the front, brass handles to sides, the ebonized interior having tune list on the inside lid, above which is a distributor's stamp naming J. H. Ebblewhite of London.
11¾ x 26 x 14 in.


inlay on the lid of the case


Decal on the front of the case



No. 32079: Churchward, Lith. Picard Lion, Geneve, 8 airs


No. 32083: 8 airs


No. 32191, 5th: The Mikado, 6 airs


No. 32814, Timbres en Vue, 5th: Home sweet home, 8 airs


No. 33045, 8th: Sister Mary, 8 airs


No. 33077, Tambour Timbres, 5th: Blue bells of Scotland, 8 airs


with 32 teeth in steel comb (complete), 3 optional bells and optional drum, tune sheet and grained case, width 16 ½ in. (42 cm), cylinder 6 in. (15 cm)


No. 33085: Cuendet, 8 airs


No. 33407, 2nd: Martha, 12 airs


No. 33409, 8th: The Mikado, 8 airs


No. 33455, 4th: Home sweet home, 12 airs


No. 33789, 1st: Eldorado,
2nd: Stephanie (Gavotte) , 12 airs

©23¼ x 10 ¼ x 6¾


No. 33808: 3rd: Tarara Boom, 8th: Eldorado


No. 33827: 3rd: Eldorado, 6th: Stephanie, 7th: Sister Mary...


Ebay 2023 Mai 15


No. 34454: 12te: The Mikado


No. 34593, 2nd: Stephanie. Gavotte.


No. 36141: 12 airs


No. 36415: Timbres en Vue, Ahlers & Ogletree Inc., 8 airs

©36415, with songs including Leo Dryden's "The Miner's Dream of Home" and Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado", housed in a parquetry inlaid wooden case with marquetry musical inlay to lid, no apparent maker's mark. Provenance: The Private Collection of Ms. Jo Ann Gordon, Madison, Mississippi; by descent. Approx. h. 8.75", w. 18.25", d. 10.5"


No. 36644: Timbres en Vue, 12 airs


No. 38793: Lith. Picard Lion, Geneve, 8 airs

©Length 420mm ~ Width 270mm ~ Height 220mm


No. 39387, 5th: Ta Ra Ra Boom, 8 airs


No. 39413: Sugnid, Lith. Picard Lion, Geneve, 8 airs

©17 inchwide8 tall10deep

©2011 Nov


No. 40169: Picard Lion, Geneve, 6 airs


No. 51233: Drucker, 8 airs


No. 60712: Jaccard Wynchange 2021, Lith. Picard Lion, Geneve, 6 airs