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PICHON & NOUDEL-DENIAU, Commissaires-Priseurs
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ARISTON – LEVER-OPERATED PHONOGRAPH from the late 19th centu…
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280
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ARISTON – LEVER-OPERATED PHONOGRAPH from the late 19th centu…
See original version (French)
Estimate €150 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
ARISTON – LEVER-OPERATED PHONOGRAPH from the late 19th century, in blackened wood with chiselled palmette spandrel decoration. The turntable features a lithographed paper rim with a polychrome design depicting child musicians
The mechanism (in need of servicing) is made of cast iron and gilded brass. The turned side panels
Signed on the side
27 x 45 x 45 cm
(crank handle added later)
With six perforated cardboard discs: ‘The Blue Danube’, ‘Polka’, ‘The Bells of Corneville’, ‘Madame Angot’s Polka’, ‘Marlborough Goes to War’, ‘Moonlight’
Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var, then passed down through the family
Biography |
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
Engineer in the French Navy (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the *Napoléon* (1850), and the first armoured frigate, the *Gloire* (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and Member of Parliament for Morbihan. In 1870, he succeeded in getting sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
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