Sold for:
$2,938
$2,938
Two-Per-Turn Mandoline Expressive Extra Harpe Musical Box, by J. H. Heller , No. 9791, playing sixteen airs, with mandoline groups of up to six teeth across half the cylinder, governor-cock stamped J.H. Heller , zither attachment with triple lyre-form standards, tune-sheet and tulipwood-banded rosewood veneered case with canted corners, ebonized plinth and ormolu carrying handles formed as lions' heads with garlands, wd. 28 1/2 in., cylinder 15 x 3 1/2 in., (five replaced bass teeth, one bent treble tooth).
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2005-11-03