AL-06 Wonderful Large “Eagle & Flag” Troll & Baker Sublime Harmonie Piccolo Interchangeable Cylinder Music Box With Matching Table. Fabulous piece of furniture, and an even more impressive music box! Five large 17 ¼” by 2 ¾” cylinders, with fine six-tune pinning. Sublime Harmonie Piccolo. Double spring for long play, mirror on inside of lid, original tune sheet (some damage). Really lovely brass and pearl inlay in the exquisite marquetry designs, lovely burl veneers, case and table in excellent condition. Lovely sound with great trills in the complicated arrangements. Includes original tune sheet: 1st Cylinder: Nanon; Stephanie; Nell Gqynne; Barber of Seville; Martha; Lohengrin. 2nd Cylinder: Sweet By & By; Nearer My God to Thee; Abide with Me; Maiden’s Prayer; Annie Laurie; Home Sweet Home. 3rd Cylinder: Star Spangled Banner; Marsellaise; God Save the Queen; Peek a Boo; Mocking Bird; Auld Lang Syne. 4th Cylinder: Swedish Wedding March; When the Swallows Homewards; Tending on the Old Camp Ground; Home Again Darling Nelly Gray; Dixie’s Land. 5th Cylinder: Sylvia; Tompette of the Regiment; Lob der Frauen; Dancing in the Barn; Pardon de Foermel; Quisisel. This unusual music box has an eagle and American flag on shield engraved on the elaborate tune indicator – was this a custom box for a special customer? Perhaps a northern General with the “Star Spangled Banner”? Or a Southern General with “Dixie Land”? We will never know but it is fun to imagine! Music box 43” wide, 10” high, 17” deep; table 52” wide, 26 ½” high, 25 ¼” deep. 36” high, 52” wide, 25 ½” deep. . Has had some light restoration and adjustment and is in really exceptional all original condition. $17,250. [SOLD]
 
 

FL-086 Large "Concerto Piccolo Harp" Eight Cylinder Music Box with Seven Bells and Matching Table. Beautiful interchangeable cylinder music box.  Unusual with bells only as accompaniment, typically much nicer sounding as bells are the most musical of the potential accompanying instruments.  With eight 6-tune cylinders, 14" length.  Box is 36" wide, 15" deep, 12" high, table is 47" wide, 25" deep, 32" high.  Recent light mechanical restoration including expert replacement of 3 - 4 teeth.  Plays great!  Wonderful selections and some really neat arrangements.  Lovely combination of case and matching table.  Unusual to have so many cylinders with a music box.  Came from a house in Florida. $14,250.  [HOLD]

Oak Carved Mermod Freres with Four 20” Cylinders and Matching Table. This is the second largest size Mermod, and I believe it is scarcer than the 24 ½”, at least that has been our personal experience over the past 35 years. Fat cylinders, six tunes each, fine comb. This one is playing great. Has had a recent cleaning and polishing of the mechanism – I don’t think it had ever been touched up to that point, which is exactly how we love to find them but rarely do nowadays. The combs are perfect. All original, complete with original tune cards and album to hold them. Beautiful carved oak case and matching table have their original finishes, missing lid support. A rare and wonderful opportunity. $28,000.

Unusual Mandolin Basse Piccolo Interchangeable Cylinder Music Box in Carved Oak Case with Matching Table. Beautiful music box with four 13" X 2½" cylinders with six tunes each, matching table.  mandolin Piccolo format.  Sounds very nice, will be a wonderful music box when restored.  Neat arrangements including lovely trills, program includes a selection from The Creation by Haydn  Dark burl veneers with ebony edges and banding inlay plus a decorative inlay on top.  Huge brass handles.  Fine original condition.  (four tips broken).  complete with damaged original tune sheet.  Inner glass is missing.  $8,800.
 

Rare “L’Universal” Unusual Format Interchangeable with Bells and with 17 Cylinders. These are the neatest technological developments in the entire music box field. Apparently made in extremely limited numbers, this is only the second we have ever had. See Bower’s Encyclopedia, page 63, top, for photo and description. I believe these came with and without bells, this one has three bells. Includes seventeen single tune cylinders. Large ship’s wheel for winding, decorative carved or pressed design over entire lid. Very nice restored condition. Much scarcer than the ever popular Capital Cuff Box type. With all seventeen cylinders – PRICE REDUCED TO $3600

S-62. Rare Early, Fine Quality 4-Tune Bremond Cylinder Music Box With Organ Section With Real Pipes. Bremond, 13" X 2 1/2" cylinder box. Beautifully restored, four nicely replaced teeth, very fine comb. Great case – it has extensive inlay with a lovely inlaid bird on the lid as well as on the front of the case, obviously relating to the bird sound of the pipes (often called “bird whistles” because they are made to sound like bird songs). This music box is identical to the much more expensive “piece de oiseau” boxes which have the bird sound (although often just from reeds, not real pipes) and have an automata bird in the box. "Organocleide Et Variations, De Piccolo". With organ section composed of 18 actual pipes. Very scarce and desirable. Lovely unusual sound, with bird inlay on top. Fine comb.Tunes: 1) Lucie De Lammermoor, Choeur Suisons L'Amant; 2) Guillame Tell, Andante De L'Overture; 3) L'Hirondelle Et Le Prisonnier; Romanie; 4) Talkes Of The Old Time, Valse Brillante. PRICE REDUCED TO $7,800

F-1. Paillard 13" Cylinder Mandolin Music Box. Paillard 13" cylinder music box, six tune, fully restored. Very pretty arrangements, really outstanding delicate sound, new tune sheet. Not in its original case although it is an original period cylinder music box case and it would be very difficult to detect. Case is 26" wide, 7" high, 8 =" deep. A wonderful music box. $2,100.

S-46B. 13” Cylinder Music Box. Early controls, plain case, bright sound with some damper squeaks. $1400.

MI-4. Ducommon-Girod Piano-Forte Keywind 13” Cylinder Music Box. Lovely restored Ducommon-Girod with 13” cylinder, early keywind music box, six tunes (three by Verdi, one by Donizetti, two by Lubitzhy), piano-forte style. Serial number 34021. Beautiful bright sound. Plain early case has some damage to it. $3200.

Cylinder Music Box With Hidden Drum. That’s right, hidden drum – no bells. This originally had hidden bells as well but they are missing, although the bell comb is still there. Very pretty case with large floral inlay, warp to lid, beautiful brass handles and large brass escutcheon. Case is 25” wide, 10 ¼” deep, 9” high. Cylinder is 15” x 2 ¼” with 9/84/6 teeth, one broken, some surface rust. Smooth bedplate, SN 43396. Plays, very bright lot of damper noise, should be repinned, no tune sheet, probably eight or ten tune. PRICE REDUCED TO $1200

K-24 G. Baker-Troll Sublime Harmonie 13” Interchangeable Cylinder Music Box. Tune sheet for six cylinders however there is only one cylinder with the box. Missing inner glass lid. Plain case, some veneer problems all around. Eight tune. Four replaced teeth, two tips need replacing, needs full restoration. Speed control not working. $2,100.

K-27 17 1/8” Cylinder Music Box with Six Bells. Twelve tune, coarse comb. With six bells. One replaced tooth. Pretty, large floral inlay on top. Damper squeaks, but will sound very nice. $2,800.

MA-1 Mermod Freres 13 3/8” Cylinder, Veneer Damage. Late style Mermod Freres cylinder box with 13 3/8” cylinder, eight tunes, tune indicator. One broken tooth, some comb discoloration, problem with governor and/or spring and/or safety check, it skips and needs to be repaired before playing. Late example with outside crank wind. Lid veneer and inlay is damaged, with perhaps one-third to one-half of inlay missing, and there is a crack in the lid. Case has large brass handles. If you are good at case restoration, this will be a bargain as this size Mermod sounds very nice when restored. Only $1,250.

AZ-1 Mojon Manger & Co 14” Cylinder Soprano. Nice, large, fine condition cylinder box. Has been cleaned and polished but not adjusted – looks great but needs some damper work and some tuning and/or registering. Bright lively tone and arrangements. Inlay of drum and trumpets on lid, small decal on front. Case 27” wide, 7 ¼” high, 10 ½” deep. Cylinder 14” X 2 ½”. Combs are excellent, no repairs. Two springs. “MMC”, for Mojon, Manger & Co., on the governor. One flat foot at left rear missing off case. $2100.

Miniature 6-Cylinder Music Box. Here’s an unusual item which I have seen in other makes/formats but not this exact make/design. Little 2 ¼” single tune cylinders. Works but needs some attention. There is no manufacturer’s name on it that I can find. Case looks old but probably not original to this mechanism. $350.

ASH-11 Charles Paillard Cylinder Music Box With Very Long 22” Cylinder.  Marked “CP&C” which I believe means Charles Paillard & Cie, a fine maker of music boxes and rarely encountered (although surprisingly enough we have two of them on this list). Appears to be Sublime Harmonnie Guitar or Tremolo.  Unfortunately this has six broken teeth and twelve broken tips on the right cob and nine broken teeth, six broken ends, and three broken tips on the left comb.  The combs originally had about 77 teeth each and this was a very nice eight tune music box. Lovely inlaid case.  Double zithers.  Plays very sluggishly, needs lubrication (in addition to everything else!).  Very unusual to have a cylinder this long.  PRICE REDUCED TO $2,100. 

ASH-14 Ten Tune Large Cylinder Music Box With Six Bells. 13” cylinder, six bells (three of the bells are not original), one broken tooth.  Ten tune.  Missing glass internal cover.  Other wise okay original condition.  $1,200.

ASH-17 Twenty Tune Music Box with 6” Cylinder. This little music box has the grand name of “Qualite Excelsior Superextra”! Also on the tune sheet is “ChU”, which I haven’t seen before but I think is Charles Ullman. Interesting effort at giving the customer lots of tunes, but musically the arrangements are of necessity very limited with the small cylinder. Complete with tune sheet with all twenty tunes! Interesting novelty. Very good original condition. $800.

ASH-19 Eight Tune Music Box with 11” Cylinder. Very good original condition.  Original tune sheet has edge torn off.  Double spring.  Very pretty, no broken teeth, tune changer mechanism, plays very well.  Zither.  $1,400.

ASH-20 Music Box with 11” Cylinder. Older restoration. Zither. Loud, plays well, damper squeaks. No tune sheet. $1400

OZ-27 Mermod Freres Music Box with One 11” Interchangeable Cylinder. Marked “Jacot”. Cylinder music box, 11” interchangeable cylinder type with only one cylinder, double spring barrel. Six tune. Plays and sounds very nice, needs damper work. Comb is fine, tip is off the far right tooth. Attractive case. $2700.

OZ-72 Interchangeable Cylinder Box In Longue Marche Format. This one is sort of rough, but very interesting. We bought this with four 10 ¼” cylinders. Some rust on comb, three broken teeth and 13 missing tips, governor blades and endless missing, the gear on the spring barrel needs to be replaced. Elaborate mechanics for the Longue Marche and for selection of tune. Probably originally was on a matching table as there are no feet on the case, which needs refinishing. We have subsequently found in our stock of orphan cylinders another four cylinders that fit this music box, giving you an amazing total of EIGHT cylinders. Will be neat when restored. $2,750.

OZ-73 Box Lot of Four Interchangeable Music Box Cylinders. Box of four interchangeable cylinders for cylinder boxes. I believe these are all Ideal Mermod cylinders, all around 11”, appear to be two in Guitar format, 1 Piccolo, don’t know on the fourth. $1000 for the lot.

Ten Tune Cylinder Muisc Box. 10 Tune, 13” cylinder, has tooth repairs, needs tuning, ratchet unattached, tune card, 23”W X 8 ½” D X 6”H. $900.

Cylinder Music Box With Three Bells. Three Bell Box. 6” cylinder. Tune card. New support board for bells. Eight tune. 8 broken teeth! 17 1/2W X 9 ½”H X 11 1/2D. Handyman special. $400.

Thibouville Lamy Ten Tune Music Box. J. Thibouville Lamy. Ten tune with tune card. One broken tooth. 10 ¾” cylinder. No glass. Large black mar on lid. 21”W X 9”D X 6 ½”H. $1,150.

Cylinder Music Box With Three Bells. Three Bell Box. 6” cylinder, good comb. Tune card. Plays, damper squeaks. 14 ¼”W X 9 ¾”D X 8”H. $1,100.

Zither Harmonique Piccolo Cylinder Music Box. Zither Harmonique Piccolo. Six tune, 13” cylinder. Tune card. Three broken teeth, zither loose. Looks rough, needs full restoration, but has lots of potential. 22 ½”W X 9 ¼”D X 5 ½”H. $1,350.

 
BHA Cylinder Muisc Box With Three Bells. BHA 3-Bell Box. 7” cylinder. Bee strikers and flowers on top of bells. Amateur repairs to 8 tips or tops of teeth, out of 34 teeth. 12 tunes, very nice tune card. Plain case, no inlay, 19” wide, 7 ½” high, 11 ½” deep, inner dividers missing or partly replaced. Surely needs repinning. Another real handyman special, but mechanism is complete and it is only $500.

WE-1 Six Tune Keywind Cylinder Music Box. Six tune keywind with 13” cylinder. Nice looking keywind with a nice long cylinder, however the end flap is missing, the governor needs work, and it may need repinning. Comb is very nice. $1050.

PA-1 Music Box With 13 ¼” Cylinder. 13 ¼” cylinder, three broken teeth, missing governor blade and endless. Rust on mechanism. Needs a lot of TLC. Below cost at $450.

Table and Cylinders Only For Interchangeable Cylinder Music Box. How depressing, we have this lovely original table, with two drawers, for an interchangeable cylinder music box, along with five very nice 13” eight-air mandolin cylinders, and the original tune sheet for these and several additional cylinders. Table is 38” wide, 27 ½” deep, has a beautiful inlay on the top of the table, the music box itself would have been set back on the table, the outline for the original music box is 29” wide by 10 ½” deep. But no music box. If you have the right music box, this lucky find will more than double its value. PRICE REDUCED TO $2450

Seven Huge Cylinders, No Music Box. What a great music box these cylinders must go to! There are seven, they measure 19 ½” by about 3 ¼”. There are approximately 172-173 engraved dividing lines, six tunes per cylinder. Cylinders are brass. Each has the serial number “1934” stamped on the end. $2,000

Musical Album on Easel Stand. Faded felt, fair to good condition overall, picture at top with a little damage. Not playing. Unusual with stand. $250.

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