Enamel Musical Instruments

An enchanting masterpiece of mechanical artistry, this rare two-bird singing automaton embodies the romance and refinement of Europe's fascination with automatons at the turn of the ...

An enchanting jewel of mechanical artistry! This early 20th-century singing bird automaton evokes the romance of Europe's golden age of craftsmanship. Encased within an elegantly dom...

A rare and spectacular grand format four overture cylinder music box made by the prestigious firm of Nicole Freres in Geneva, Switzerland in c. 1865. Musically sumptuous, visually st...

Vintage 2013 Fender Standard Jazz Bass® Left-Handed, Rosewood Fingerboard, Black electric bass guitar. “Combining traditional design with contemporary fe...

Vintage 2013 Fender American Standard Jazz Bass®, Rosewood Fingerboard, Olympic White electric bass guitar. “The U.S.-made flagship of the Jazz Bass line...

This extremely rare, early Swiss fusée singing bird box by the renowned Charles Bruguier combines exquisite artistry with outstanding mechanical cra...

Antique early-20th Century Austrian solid silver-gilt singing bird automaton box, of rectangular form, champleve enamelled and set with stones and pearls, opening to reveal a singing...

Dieter Rams and Hans Gugelot - SK 5 Phonosuper Radiogram Braun AG Germany, 1958 Dieter Rams and Hans Gugelot (designer), 1958 Braun AG, Germany (manufacturer) - SK 5 Phonosupe...

One of the rarest examples of a mechanical bird box ever seen, this extraordinary box features not one, but two brilliantly colored love birds. When the lid is opened, the delightful pair begin to sing their sweet, melodious tune, with their bodies, wings and beaks in full motion. While the presence of two singing birds makes this an exceptional rarity, it is distinguished in all other respects as well. The sterling silver casing is handsomely set with panels of powder blue enamel and hand-painted porcelain miniatures decorated with serene seascapes. The complex mechanism has the amazing ability to successfully engage two independently moving birds within a casing typically designed for a single bird. The one-of-a-kind objet d'art was inspired by the mechanical complexity of 19th-century Swiss automata, and it represents the pinnacle of the art form. Mechanical singing bird boxes...

This is a lovely antique Swiss eight airs cylinder six bells-in-view music box, circa 1880 in date and bearing the horn and dagger stamp of the renowned maker Paillard Vaucher Fils (PVF) of St Croix, Switzerland. The gonzalo alves case is boxwood strung, crossbanded in walnut with floral marquetry decoration on the lid. There are six bells with enamelled butterfly strikers and a beautiful tune indicator and the original music sheet is on the underside of the lid. The cylinder length is approx: 28 cm. The box plays the following eight tunes: 1. The leaving Audran 2. Ermine Jablonsky 3. The Excelsior Marenco 4. Mikado Sullivan 5. White Wings Winter 6. Don Caesar Strauss 7. Home Sweet Home Sinclair 8. Where blooms the wild rose Strauss Condition: In excellent working order the case having being cleaned and polished and the movement professionally serviced and cleaned. Dimensions in cm: Height 25 x Width 53 x Depth 32 Dimensions in inches: Height 9.8 x Width 20.9 x Depth 12.6 Music box (also musical box) is a 19th/20th century automatic musical instrument that produces sounds by the use of a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc so as to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae) of a steel comb. They were developed from musical snuff boxes...