circa 1850, No. 257, with single barrel playing eight airs, wooden key frame bearing paper label of the airs in French, rear-mounted handle and crank-shaft with double worm for barrel and automaton cam-rack, the top with monkey automaton scene of a poorly fellow sitting up in bed with glass in hand, a surgeon standing with menacing enema whilst a priest sits at the foot of the bed reading last rites and the weeping wife seated and clothed in her best with a bouquet of flowers, in 18th Century style bedroom interior with draped-swag folds suspended over sleigh bed, pictures and looking glass to patterned papered walls, black and white cheque floor, actions to all from full-length cam rod, in rosewood veneered case with pointed pediment, glazed front and large diamond inlay in ebony and boxwood, on short bracket feet - 24in (61cm) wide, 36in (91.5cm) high, the barrel 18in (46cm), 4.3in (11cm) diam.
circa 1850, No. 257, with single barrel playing eight airs, wooden key frame bearing paper label of the airs in French, rear-mounted handle and crank-shaft with double worm for barrel and automaton cam-rack, the top with monkey automaton scene of a poorly fellow sitting up in bed with glass in hand, a surgeon standing with menacing enema whilst a priest sits at the foot of the bed reading last rites and the weeping wife seated and clothed in her best with a bouquet of flowers, in 18th Century style bedroom interior with draped-swag folds suspended over sleigh bed, pictures and looking glass to patterned papered walls, black and white cheque floor, actions to all from full-length cam rod, in rosewood veneered case with pointed pediment, glazed front and large diamond inlay in ebony and boxwood, on short bracket feet - 24in (61cm) wide, 36in (91.5cm) high, the barrel 18in (46cm), 4.3in (11cm) diam.
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