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Prices Paid at Bonhams Auction 7 October 2010
By Dana Johnson

[ Bob Conant wrote in 101029 MMDigest:

> I had hoped someone might post the results here for our education.

Here are the results from the Bonhams auction.  Prices are copied from
their web site.

Dana Johnson

 [ Ref. http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/WService=wslive_pub/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=usa&screen=catalogue&iSaleNo=18556 
 [ Thanks, Dana, your list with the condensed description is exactly
 [ what we need.  Thanks to several other MMDers who also responded
 [ with similar data.  -- Editor (Robbie)

 - - -

  Bonhams Auction, Sale 18556, Magnificent Mechanical Musical
  Instruments and Automata, 7 Oct. 2010, 580 Madison Avenue, New York

Prices are of Buyer's Premium, exclusive of sales tax (VAT, TVA,
etc.) and may be subject to change.

Please note: The default price [shown following] reflects the hammer
price and the buyer's premium.

Lot    Description    Price

1. A very fine English silver musical snuffbox, with hidden erotic
automaton by Charles Rawling & William Summers, London, 1829; $29,280

2. A fine gold musical snuffbox, Swiss, by Piquet & Meylan, circa 1810;
$17,080

3. An rare and early gold and enamel presentation musical snuffbox,
Swiss, circa 1810; $19,520

4. A fine gold and turquoise musical hair locket, circa 1820, $29,280

5. An early and important veri-gold and enamel musical vinaigrette,
Swiss, stamped C&J, in the manner of Henri Capt, circa 1812; $15,860

6. A fine gold musical fob, Swiss, circa 1815; $1,952

7. not sold.

8. A fine and early silver-gilt and enamel singing bird box, by Charles
Bruguier, circa 1823; $29,280

9. not sold.

10. A rare coin-operated 'Forte Piccolo Timbres Dansenses' buffet
cylinder music box, by Mermod Fréres, circa 1880, retailed by Samuel
Troll; $12,200

11. A 'Quatuor' Mandoline music box, playing six airs circa 1885,
probably by Paillard; $8,540

12.-15. not sold.

16. A Regina 27-inch 'Dragon Door' auto-changer disc music box, Home
Model style 33, circa 1900; $24,400

17.-19. not sold.

20. A coin-operated 27-inch Regina 'Orchestral' disc music box, style
No. 5, circa 1897; $12,200

21. not sold.

22. A fine Mills Violano-Virtuoso, circa 1915, the single-violin Home
Model, in stunning case probably upgraded at time of commission, $67,100

23. A very fine and unique Hupfeld Helios Model III/39 Orchestrion,
Early 1910s, The Classical Case model, with illuminated automaton
scene; $482,000

24. A Hupfeld Sinfonie-Jazz Orchestrion, Circa 1927, style No. 19;
$61,000

25. A Seeburg Orchestrion, Model J, Circa 1916, with the 'Capitol
Building' stained art glass panel; $85,400

26. A Weber-Maesto Orchestrion, German, circa 1926, exceedingly rare
late model; $434,000

27. A Mortier eighty-four key 'Astrid' Café Orchestrion, Circa 1920,
a close model 39 resemblance; $182,000

28. A Lösche K-1 Orchestrion, Circa 1925, with illuminated pictorial
automaton; $158,000

29. A Philipps Paganini Orchestrion, Circa 1915, Keyboard-less Style
No. 3; $242,000

30. A Popper 'Iduna' Orchestrion, Circa 1912, Model 13, with illuminated
pictorial automaton; $218,000

31. The exhibition Hupfeld Phonoliszt-Violina, Model B, A unique
and highly important commission-made model, reputedly built for the
1911 Exhibition in Turin, Italy; $658,000

32. An exhibition-quality 'Flute Voix-Céleste et Mandoline'
interchangeable cylinder music box-on-stand, by Lecoultre, Circa
1869; $64,050

33. not sold.

34. A rare Plerodiénique interchangeable cylinder music box-on-stand,
by Mermod Fréres, Circa 1894, retailed by Samuel Troll, $54,900

35. An Orchestral Mandarin-striker interchangeable cylinder music box,
by Mermod Frères, Circa 1890, the American-market 'Ideal Orchestra'
model movement, as retailed by Samuel Troll; $14,640

36.-37. not sold.

38. A Polyphon Savoyard coin-operated disc music box automaton, Circa
1900, New Style 100, playing 15.1/2-inch disks, 'The Monkey Dancers';
$15,860

39. A Polyphon Savoyard coin-operated disc music box automaton, Circa
1900, Style 100 playing 11.1/4-inch disks, 'The Organ-Grinder', $27,450

40. An extremely rare 15.1/2-inch Regina auto-change disk music box
china cabinet, Circa 1906, Style 335, one of only eleven thought to
have been manufactured; $35,380

41. not sold.


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