Key-wind mandolin musical box,
stamped on bedplate Bissen à Paris N° 9582
With mandolin teeth in groups up to eight in upper half of comb.
Playing four airs by Bellini, Julien, Donizetti and Salas.
The bedplate stamped Bissen à Paris 9582, with a D. Lecoultre tune sheet (Bulleid 157), in grained case with endflap and rosewood veneered lid with crinkle moulded edges and boulle inlay.
22½ inch wide, the cylinder 15 inch (38cm)
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