Jon Baddeley
Specialist Consultant Collectors, Science & Marine
Lot 16W
A Pistor barrell organ & clock, English, mid 18th century,
19 May 2015, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge£10,000 - £15,000
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Claire Tole-Moir
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A Pistor barrell organ & clock, English, mid 18th century,
the 25 key movement with 22 inch pinned wooden barrel playing on five racks of metal and wooden pipes, the side with five stops, bellows mounted below in flame mahogany case with winding handle at the front, applied with simulated gilt wood organ pipes, white enamel clock face with two train verge movement signed Pistor London, flanked by classical figures and Rococo swags, lacking stand, 53 in (135cm) high