Auction: Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments - 2502Location: MarlboroughDate / Time: May 01, 2010 10:00AM
Description:
Singing Bird Music Box Automaton, attributed to Griesbaum, with going barrel movement, bird with yellow, blue, and green plumage, moving head, beak, wings, and tail in an enameled case with pastoral scene with figures, sheep and marked on the bottom Tiffany & Co., (lacking a key),wd. 4 in.
Estimate $2,000-3,000
bellows need restoration, bird presently not singing, automaton action could use adjustment, plumage delicate.