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Precision-built Electric (!) Brass Demonstration Locomotive in running condition, c. 1880Estimate: 5.000 – 8.000 € / 4.500 – 7.000 £ /
6,000 – 10,000 US$
Rare Set-Rack “Columbus” Calculator, 1909Estimate: 2.000 – 4.000 € / 1.700 – 3.500 £ /
2,500 – 5,000 US$
Very rare “Symphonion Non-Plus-Ultra” Style 100 Disc-Changing Musical Box,
c. 1900Estimate: 55.000 – 80.000 € / 48.000 –
70.000 £ / 67,000 – 98,000 US$
Musical Gold Snuff Box by Piguet et Capt, c. 1810Estimate: 6.000 – 8.000 € / 5.300 – 7.000 £ /
7,000 – 10,000 US$Rare & Early “Radiophone Microphone” by Bell & Tainter, c. 1880
Estimate: 10.000 – 15.000 € / 8.800 – 13.200 £ / 12,000 – 18,000 US$
Astronomical Telescope after Kepler, by
K. Fritsch vorm. Prokesch,Vienna, c. 1870Estimate: 5.000 – 8.000 € /
4.400 – 7.000 £ / 6,000 – 10,000 US$
An English “Penny Farthing”, c. 1885Estimates (each): 3.000 – 5.000 € / 2.600 – 4.500 £ / 3,700 – 6,000 US$
Two Early Original Bicycles:Pierre Michaux “Vélocipède”, c. 1868
“Station” Musical Box Chalet by Mermod Frères, c. 1900Estimate: 17.000 – 22.000 € / 15.000 – 20.000 £ / 20,000 – 27,000 US$
“Aubade à la Lune” Automaton by Gustave
Vichy, c. 1890Estimate:
18.000 – 20.000 € / 16.000 – 17.800 £ /
22,000 – 25,000 US$146th Specialty Auction
»Science & Technology«»Fine Toys«
»Mechanical Music«25 + 26 May 2018
Rare “Thürey” Typewriter, 1909Estimate: 15.000 – 25.000 € /
13.300 – 22.000 £ / 18,000 – 30,000 US$
“Futuristic Cityscape”, 1991 Oil painting by Konrad Zuse, inventor
of world’s first programmable electromechanical computer (1941!)
Estimate: 8.000 – 15.000 € / 7.000 – 13.000 £ / 9,000 – 18,000 US$
Selection of Monocular Opera Glasses from a Single-Owner Collection, 18th – 20th Century
Estimates: 200 – 15.000 € / 180 – 13.000 £ / 3,000-18,000 US$
Wurlitzer “Peacock” Jukebox Mod. 850, c. 1941Estimate: 25.000 – 35.000 € / 22.000 – 31.000 £ / 30,000 – 43,000 US$
Cuff-Type Microscope Compendium, c. 1780
Estimate: 3.000 – 5.000 € / 2.600 – 4.400 £ /
3,500 – 6,000 US$
“Saxonia” Stepped-Drum Calculator, with extremely rare roll-top case, c. 1910
Estimate: 2.500 – 4.000 € / 2.200 – 3.500 £ / 3,000 – 5,000 US$
Tin Toy Kitchen with Full Complement of Utensils, by
Rock & Graner, mid-19th century
Estimate: 10.000 – 15.000 € / 8,800 – 13.000 £ /
12,300 – 18,000 US$
“Fürst Bismarck”, c. 1909 The largest toy battleship by Gebrüder Bing,
NurembergEstimate: 30.000 – 40.000 € / 26.000 – 35.000 £ /
37,000 – 49,000 US$
Selection of Rare Live Steam Engines, 1880 – 1930Estimates: 1.000 – 15.000 € /
880 – 13.000 £ / 1,250 – 18,000 US$
Grand Format Variations Musical Box by Nicole Frères, c. 1865Estimate: 12.000 – 18.000 € / 10.000 – 15.000 £ / 14,000 – 22,000 US$