An unusually large size buffet music box made by Mojon Manger of Geneva, Switzerland in c. 1885. The fully restored movement features a drum

The fully restored movement features a drum with 8 beaters and a beautiful array of 6 rack-mounted saucer bells with coloured enamel floral finials. This arrangement, and the unusual size, make this a very attractive and interesting music box. The movement also has a double spring for longer playing, and ‘On-Off’ levers for both the drum and the bells which can be engaged and disengaged at will. The governor also bears the maker’s stamp: ‘M M C’.

The music box plays 8 poplar tunes as listed on the replacement tunesheet, and has a particularly nice and varied sound. It comes in a gorgeous case veneered in burr walnut with kingwood crossbanding, together with brass, ebony and mother-of-pearl inlaid cartouches to the doors, and gilt carrying handles to the sides.