We have a large auction with a fine collection of music boxes and
mechanical musical devices. I have attached our entire text for the
auction. We will be putting a complete list with lot numbers on our
web site within the next 7 days. Preview is the previous day & the
sale starts at 10 am. Local hotel rooms are also listed on the web
site.
Thanks,
Maryanne Bowes
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[ See http://www.williambunchauctions.com/may524_Cat.htm
Multi-Estate Auction, Wednesday, May 24, 2000, Commencing at 10:00 AM
Preview: Tuesday 2 PM until 7 PM, Wednesday 8 AM & throughout the sale
Ballroom of the Concordville Inn, Routes 1 & 322, Concordville,
Pennsylvania
Over 110 lots of music boxes, phonographs, and other musical antiques
and collectables
Disc music boxes: 15-1/2" Reginaphone Model 240; 15-1/2" inlaid oak
cased 15-1/2" Reginaphone; 20-3/4" oak cupola top coin op Reginaphone;
15-1/2" coin op Regina; 10" Symphonium; 5-1/2" Symphonium; 19 5/8"
Polyphon upright; 4-1/2" Thorens; Regina Style 81 mission oak hall
clock with 12" bell movement.
Swiss cylinder boxes: 20" Bremond Mandolin in heavily inlaid case;
finely inlaid 19" 4 comb 9 bell machine with orguinette, immaculate!;
8 tune Paillard; 10 tune coin op Mermod Freres plays Southern US songs
such as Dixie & Old Kentucky Home; 12 tune 15-1/2" George Bendon with
unusual porcelain medallion in lid; 10 tune 8 1/4" Paillard; 8 tune 6"
with zither; 6 tune 6 1/4" interchangeable w/3 cylinders.
Disc phonographs: "Little Wonder" a rarity! 2 Zonophones; Busy Bee by
O'Neil & James; Victor Models I, Humpback II, II with oak horn, IV
w/mahogany horn, V w/oak horn, VV IV, VV VI, VV VIII, VV IX; Colombia
Gramophone; Canadian Imperial; English Crown; Edison Diamond disc;
Standard Model A, Standard Model X, Farrand, Campophone.
Cylinder phonographs: Edison Kruesi, model of his first patented device
to record & play sound; other Edisons: Home w/wood grained cygnet horn,
Home w/floor crane, 4 min. Amberola 30, 4 min. Amberola Model X,
Standard, Suitcase Standard.
William Knabe mahogany baby grand Ampico reproducing piano juke boxes:
Wurlitzer model 61 tabletop; 1938 Seeburg (unrestored); Wurlitzer Model
1015 wall box; Seeburg Model 100-C wall box, Replica Wurlitzer RB-8 by
Antique Apparatus.
Roller organs: Oak Concert; ebonized Gem; 2 Tanzibar player accordions;
walnut Clariona Organette; CW lap organ.
Other oddities: 3 Greistbaum Whistlers; 2 PianoLodians; Rolmonica;
Playasax; 2 Philco cathedral radios; Pathe cathedral form bronze
speaker lamp; 4 wall phones, stick phone, American Eagle trade
stimulator, also extra rolls, cylinders, records, discs, needles,
other musical collectibles.
All machines are viewable at our web site:
http://www.williambunchauctions.com
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William Bunch, Auctioneer & Appraiser
11 North Brandywine Street, West Chester, PA 19380
phone (610) 696-1530 , fax (610) 701-2486
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