A B.A. BREMOND INTERCHANGABLE EIGHT-CYLINDER INLAID WALNUT MUSIC BOX ON STAND Geneva, circa 1880
With six bells with bee-form hammers and drum, fitted with cylinder drawers, crank numbered 11718, the lid with original tune label listing 48 airs,
height 46in (117cm); width 55in (139.5cm); depth 36in (91.5cm).

Sold for US$ 11,475 inc. premium at Bonham’s in 2021

A SWISS WALNUT-CASED AND ROSEWOOD AND FRUITWOOD INLAID ‘STELLA DISC’ MUSICAL BOX
RETAILED BY J.F.MÜLLER, THE PATENT DATED 1885, PROBABLY EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The top and interior of lid inlaid with floral marquetry; together with seventeen various ‘Stella discs’
The box: 10 ½ in. (26.5 cm.) high; 28 ½ in. (72.5 cm.) wide; 21 ½ in. (54.5 cm.) deep.

Sold for GBP 875 at Christie’s in 2018

Swiss Walnut and Other Woods Cylinder Music Box
Early 20th century
Rectangular with hinged cover opening to cylinder playing ten tunes. Height 7 inches, length 23 1/2 inches.

Sold for $437 (includes buyer’s premium) at Doyle

Inlaid Walnut Polyphon Double Comb Music Box with inlaid and carved case on custom stand with fitted compartment for disks. Includes Twenty Seven 19 5/8″ disks with play list. Box: 12 1/2″ tall x 26 1/2″ wide x 24 1/2″ deep. Appx 49″ on stand. Minor losses to bottom carving of box. Working condition.

Sold for US$1,600 at San Rafael Auction Gallery in 2022

A SWISS GILT BRASS MECHANICAL BIRD CAGE MUSIC BOX The domed cage enclosing two singing birds, mounted on a wall bracket with lyre shaped support, 16cm wide, 16cm deep, 30cm high (6in wide, 6in deep, 11 1/2in high) 33cm high

Sold for £ 1,530 (US$ 1,912) inc. premium at Bonham’s in 2019

MULTI-GEM ‘AROUND THE WORLD’ CLOCK AND MUSICAL BOX, GRAFF
Lapis lazuli, rock crystal, circular-cut diamonds, yellow diamonds, emeralds, cabochon rubies, gold, revolving hours, the top opening to reveal the gem-set figure of an explorer, the musical box playing the tune of ‘Around the World’ by Nat King Cole, quartz movement, 22.5×11.8 cm, 2310 gr, signed Graff London, blue Graff case

Sold for CHF 50,000 at Christie’s in 2020

Uncle Sam carved figure Whistler music box. This unusual Whistler musical novelty was made about 25 years ago in Rudesheim Germany, by Siegfried Wendel, who purchased the Griesbaum factory from the original owners. Figure turns head right and left as he whistles “Yankee Doodle” 16” tall.

Sold for US$600 at Donley Auctions in 2020

A GOLD AND ENAMEL SNUFF BOX WITH MUSIC AND AUTOMATON, GUIDON, RÉMOND, GIDE, GENEVA, 1792-1801

oval, the lid painted en plein with Telemachus arriving with Mentor on Calypso’s isle, within a chased and enamelled border, the sides and base decorated in taille d’épargne enamels with a diaper design within similar borders, the sides divided by urns on a ground pierced to help the music be heard, the lid opening to show the complicated coloured gold automaton by which figures in renaissance dress conduct music and peep at an itinerant knife grinder, gilt sur plateau movement

Sold for 225,000 GBP at Sotheby’s in 2020

AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY SWISS GOLD MUSICAL SNUFF BOX
Henri Neisser, Geneva 1809 – 1814
Modelled as a purse, the interior with a small compartment for the musical movement with an enamelled cover depicting a pansy on a pale green ground, length 6.6cm.

Sold for £ 6,375 (US$ 8,021) inc. premium at Bonham’s in 2020

THE GENEVA MAKER ‘M&P’. A VERY FINE AND EXTREMELY RARE SMALL 20K VARICOLORED GOLD OVAL MUSICAL SNUFF BOX WITH FOUR AUTOMATICALLY CHANGING TUNES PLAYING ON A CARILLON OF FIVE BELLS

Stamped M&P, circa 1785

Sold for CHF 52,500 at Christie’s in 2021

Musical Snuff Box, c. 1840
No. 6055, playing two airs, with sectional comb in fourteen groups of five teeth (complete), in composition or gutta-percha case with horn inner cover, wd. 3 5/8 in. (9.4 cm), cylinder 2 3/8 in. (6 cm), good playing condition, chip on lower-front case rim, case with unobtrusive repairs, with key.

Sold for €550 at Auction Team Breker in 2022

A pearl-set gold and enamel musical watch snuff box, Henri Neisser, Geneva, circa 1808

oval, the lid enamelled with a young couple in landscape.

Sold for 94,500 GBP at Sotheby’s in 2020