An exceptional quality Mandoline Quatuor antique cylinder music box made by Samuel Troll, in c. 1870. The fat cylinder creates an extremely subtle sound, playing 6 operatic airs in beautiful arrangements including “Faust” and “The Blue Danube”. The cylinder measures 17 ¼” / 44cm in length and 3” / 8cm diameter. The case, rosewood veneered and banded with kingwood, has a fabulous brass inlay of two butterflies to the lid. The tunesheet, although damaged, is original, with the “Mandoline Quatuor” hand-drawn on the tunesheet. 

This box comes from a private collection formed some 35 years ago when boxes of this quality were still available. Nowadays music boxes like this rarely come to the market. It is something really special – a connoisseur’s music box from a bygone era.