Auction: Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments - 2383Location: BoltonDate / Time: October 28, 2007 10:00AM
Description:
Lever-Wind Musical Box by Lecoultre, No. 39415, playing eight popular airs including After the Opera's Over and Still I am Not Happy, (Gamme No. 307),with flat-topped lever, tune-sheet, and stripped walnut case with boxwood stringing, wd. 22, cylinder 13 in.
Note: Bulleid lists this tune-sheet (No. 181 in his book) on a box by Lecoultre & Brechet of c. 1853. For the later configuration of the firm in the box here, the pattern remains the same, except that the initials L.B. have been replaced by L.F.
Estimate $700-900
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