A rare key-wind Forte-Piano Mandoline musical box with hooked teeth
A rare key-wind Forte-Piano Mandoline musical box with hooked teeth No. 4674, playing four airs, with single-spring motor, plain brass bedplate and single-section comb of approximately 186 teeth, with the 85 bass teeth hooked, ten washerless blued comb screws and mandoline teeth in groups of up to seven across two-thirds of the cylinder, replaced tunesheet inside the lid and end-flap for three controls, in grained case with rosewood-veneered lid inlaid with tooled brass and central tamborine motif, surrounded by salmon pink, ivory, red, blue and lime green enamel infills and double-line brass stringing - 20¾in. (52.7cm) wide, the cylinder 13 3/8in. (33.5cm) , (one near-treble tooth tip off, four extreme treble teeth replaced in pairs)
A rare key-wind Forte-Piano Mandoline musical box with hooked teeth
A rare key-wind Forte-Piano Mandoline musical box with hooked teeth No. 4674, playing four airs, with single-spring motor, plain brass bedplate and single-section comb of approximately 186 teeth, with the 85 bass teeth hooked, ten washerless blued comb screws and mandoline teeth in groups of up to seven across two-thirds of the cylinder, replaced tunesheet inside the lid and end-flap for three controls, in grained case with rosewood-veneered lid inlaid with tooled brass and central tamborine motif, surrounded by salmon pink, ivory, red, blue and lime green enamel infills and double-line brass stringing - 20¾in. (52.7cm) wide, the cylinder 13 3/8in. (33.5cm) , (one near-treble tooth tip off, four extreme treble teeth replaced in pairs)
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