Rare Singing Bird Box by Bontems

Rare Singing Bird Box by Bontems, c. 1890 Starting bid: € 1.400 | Estimate: € 2.500 – 3.500 With going-barrel movement, stack of eight horizontal cams, whistle and bellows, bird with charcoal-grey plumage, green-tipped wings, swiveling perch, articulated bone...

Hiller Talking Clock

Hiller Talking Clock, c. 1912 Starting bid: € 1.400 | Estimate: € 1.800 – 2.000 Bernhard Hiller, Berlin, clock with phonograph mechanism for time announcements every 15 minutes, double-spring motor, hill-and-dale type reproducer, for 50 mm sound tapes, oak case...

Schröder Chainstitch Sewing Machine

Schröder Chainstitch Sewing Machine, c. 1862 Starting bid: € 450 | Estimate: € 800 – 1.200 I. Schröder, Darmstadt, Germany. With retailer’s name on the brass plaque: “Atelier Mecanique E. Vix, Strasbourg”, walking foot machine, cast iron with...

Miniature Nuremberg Diptych Azimuth Dial

Miniature Nuremberg Diptych Azimuth Dial, c. 1700 Starting bid: € 450 | Estimate: € 800 – 1.200 Leonhard Andreas Karner. Consisting of 2 bone plates on a wood core and a bone cover plate, with red-and-black colored engravings, brass hooks, vertical dial on the...

Moon Relief Globe by Alfred Schlegel

Moon Relief Globe by Alfred Schlegel, 1964 Starting bid: € 350 | Estimate: € 700 – 1.000 Porcelain engraver Alfred Schlegel, Selb, Germany. Bronze-coloured plastic, Ø 12 ½ in., the side facing the earth depicted in greatest detail (craters, maria and mountains),...