An Early 20thC Hand Wind Musical Box c.1900-10 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus signed with initials E

signed with initials E

and they use it in one of their own homes

‘Maggie Williams

This table certainly revives many elements of the period such as the scrolled arms and amalgamates them with added quirks that the late nineteenth century brings

Exert from The Last Bison by Charles Mair

An Early 20thC Hand Wind Musical Box c.1900-10 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus signed with initials EOrigin: EnglishPeriod: EdwardianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1900 10Diameter: 2. 75Depth: 1. 25The charming early 20thc hand crank or wind musical box, of pressed metal to a brass and porcelain handle, and with a paper image of a young girl wearing a red ribbon to the facing side, the flanks with impressed lyres, the whole in working order and surviving from the first decade of the twentieth century. In working order the sound is sweet and evocative.