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Bonhams Mechanical Music Sale 28 April 2009
By Laurence Fisher

This 202 lot sale (141 lots of mechanical music) is titled, as usual,
Mechanical Music and Scientific Instruments, to be held on Tuesday 28
April at the Knightsbridge rooms.

3 early 19th Century barrel organ on stands; a Rowe type II jukebox;
a Delong Cowboy Bandit; An HMV 460 table Luminere gramophone;
Edison Bell Discophone; E. R. Houdin automaton Magician timepiece;
a tri-singing bird jumpers in tree timepiece by Bontems; French
singing humming bird automaton carriage clock; gilt and enamel singing
bird box with clock; fabulous fuse Bruguier bird box, No. 47; four
further good singing bird boxes; Phalibois musical monkey ironer
automaton; two further musical glass domed automatons; a steam yacht;
four-cylinder revolver cylinder box; four good key-wind boxes, one of
which plays overtures; a good piano-forte box; three bell boxes; three
tremolo-zither boxes; six further boxes with varying features; a gilt
sur-plateau musical snuffbox; a Polyphon 19.5/8-inch upright with
original bin and two smaller Brittania disc musical boxes  -- and
much, much, more!

The sale starts with a very impressive radio collection with one of
the best selections of catalin radios ever offered in an auction.
Mechanical music sale starts proper from lot 100.

To receive a catalogue for this sale, please contact 0044 1666 502 200
(for UK dialers, please use 0 instead of 0044) and quote 16781.  To see
the online version, please use this link:-

http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=Catalogue&iSaleNo=16781 

For 2009, we are offering not the four usual sales, but six.  Two
in Knowle for the popular selection (12 May and 29 Sept), two in
Knightsbridge for the fine selection (28 Apr and 10 Nov), an extra
special sale in New Bond St. for the very best musical boxes and vertu
(25 November), and as a special treat, a single-owner sale at the end
of September in London  -- the Michael Bennett-Levy Sale of Early
Technology.

Please be sure to contact our catalogue subs department on the above
number to receive all these catalogues.

If you have any questions relating to this forthcoming sale or the
Bonhams sale schedule for 2009 in line to placing property to auction,
please feel free to contact me directly on 0044 8700 273 633 (for UK
dialers, please use 0 instead of 0044).

I look forward to assisting you and joining you for 2009 which will be
a happy mechanical music year, in spite of what the world out there is
up to  -- don't listen to them!!

Best regards,
Laurence Fisher - in cold rainy London (what's new?!)


(Message sent Fri 17 Apr 2009, 09:08:03 GMT, from time zone GMT+0100.)

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