19thC Continental Walnut Symphonium Timepiece

19thC Continental Walnut Symphonium Timepiece c1880, With a steeple topped clock above a silver ring dial, and fret work hands with numbers to the hours, with blind fretwork to the clock and cabinert fronts, the cabinet opening to revaeal a mechanical music system with a Lenzkirch movement. In the early 1900s Mr and Mrs Cowdrey had the matching cabinet commissioned whilst residing in India, containing 15 sunken brass handle drawers containing 160 metal musical discs, 223cm & 148cm high, 59 cm wide each, Est R40-000-60,000. SOLD R62,000.00