$411
Helvetia-Pattern Cylinder Musical Box by Junod, No. 1152, pat. 366325, playing eight popular and operatic airs, with direct-drive cylinder, great wheel and governor on the right-hand side, threaded winding key, exterior controls, tune-change detent with extended hook, lyre-form tune indicator, and tune-sheet depicting dancing fairies accompanied by a cricket band, headed Musique Symphonique , in grained case with rosewood veneered lid and inlaid pastoral motifs, wd. 23, cylinder 14 in., (nine bass and two treble tips off, a few scattered bent pins at bass end). Note: U.S. patent 366325 for an improvement in musical boxes was granted to Arthur Junod of St. Croix and Emile Cuendent of Hoboken, New Jersey, on 12 July 1887. Although it referred to the direct-drive spring and locking system of interchangeable movements, several of the elements can be seen in this fixed-cylinder version.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2007-10-28
