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138 - Automatic music box featuring ‘The Whistling Bird’, crafted …
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Estimate €800 - €1,200
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Description
Automatic music box featuring ‘The Whistling Bird’, crafted from silver and vermeil (800/00), richly decorated with scrolls, foliage and interlacing patterns, the top adorned in the centre with a medallion decorated with flowers and foliage, which rises via a mechanism to reveal a bird adorned with multicoloured feathers spinning round and round, presented in its original box, with its key on the back of the box, Dimensions: 3.4 × 9.6 × 6.2 cm. Gross weight: approx. 494 g (a few screws are missing; the bird does not whistle).
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Auction time 10/31/2026 at 2:00 PM
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