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Mechanical Music Auction in Cologne 15 Nov. 2014
By Uwe Breker

Dear MMDs,  The next auction of mechanical music in Cologne, Germany,
takes place on 15 November 2014 [Saturday] at Auction Team Breker.
A diverse 200 lots includes barrel organs by Bacigalupo, singing birds,
automata, gramophones, phonographs, cylinder and disc musical boxes.
Some of the highlights:

- Autophone Co. "Grand Roller Organ" with 15 cobs,
- Black Forest longcase organ clock with automata,
- superb Emerald Polyphon,
- two models of the rare Polygraphon combined gramophone and disc
  musical box,
- Semi-Helicoidal interchangeable musical box by Conchon,
- rare hybrid Nicole Freres 'grand format' two-per-turn,
- several musical gold snuff boxes and miniature sur-plateau movements.

The online catalogue is available at http://breker.com/english/index.htm 

Many of the musical boxes can also be seen and heard at

  http://www.youtube.com/user/auctionteambreker/videos 

The auction takes place at 10:00 a.m., with viewing on the morning
of the sale and from 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. the previous evening.
International bidders are always welcome!

Best wishes,

Uwe Breker - Auction Team Breker
Cologne, Germany
tel.: 0049 (0) 2236 38 43 40
email: auction@breker.com.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]


(Message sent Sun 2 Nov 2014, 12:58:36 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

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