Lot 31 , Nicole Frères, G. Baker-Troll & Company, A large and complex Swiss multi-instrument cylinder music box, 19th century 83 x 39cm, 36cm high.

Nicole Frères, G. Baker-Troll & Company, A large and complex Swiss multi-instrument cylinder music box, 19th century 83 x 39cm, 36cm high.

Nicole Frères, G. Baker-Troll & Company, A large and complex Swiss multi-instrument cylinder music box, 19th century
the sectional seventy-two tooth comb interspersed with twenty striking pins, before a castanet and drum, flanking six bells, playing over twelve airs, the marker stamped ‘G. Baker-Troll & Company, Geneva’, the regulator stamped ‘ Nicole Frères’, with original song card, in an inlaid rosewood case, 49.5cm cylinder.
83 x 39cm, 36cm high.
£3,000-5,000

Condition:
The crank is broken and therefore the movement not running, otherwise seemingly in good clean condition and complete. All teeth of the comb are present. Otherwise generally clean and sound throughout.

Sold for £3,000