DESCRIPTION:
Mermod Freres, St. Croix, Switzerland, cylinder music box, with 4 eleven inch cylinders [3 fit in drawer built into case], each cylinder with 6 tunes. This is an ideal "Piccolo" format box, with tune number indicator, and Jacot "Safety Check", external crank wound, in an inlaid case with 45 degree corners. No tune sheets. WITH a non-matching but sturdy stained pine table from the same period with heavy turned legs.
CONDITION:
Mechanically the box is very clean and plays crisply and with excellent tone. Cosmetically, there are some nicks and scrapes to mahogany veneer case with ebonized accents, and there is a missing piece of veneer about an inch long from right front corner. Inside and outside of lid show well figured crotch mahogany, interior with a celluloid card indicating Ideal Piccolo [card is warped and with loss to black printing, and is barely legible]
ESTIMATE:
$2750
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$3750
PRICE SOLD:
$3400
CIRCA: 1875
DIMENSIONS: 11in x 30in x 15in
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