Auction Team Breker 146th Specialty Auction
»Science & Technology«
»Fine Toys«
»Mechanical Music«
25 + 26 May 2018
10 Otto-Hahn-Street
Koeln (Godorf) Germany

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Precision-built Electric (!) Brass Demonstration
Locomotive in running condition, c. 1880
Estimate: 5.000 – 8.000 € / 4.500 – 7.000 £ /
6,000 – 10,000 US$
Rare Set-Rack “Columbus” Calculator, 1909
Estimate: 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. 1900
Estimate: 55.000 – 80.000 € /
48.000 – 70.000 £ / 67,000 – 98,000 US$
Musical Gold Snuff Box by Piguet et Capt, c. 1810
Estimate: 6.000 – 8.000 € / 5.300 – 7.000 £ /
Rare & Early “Radiophone 7,000 – 10,000 US$
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. 1870
Estimate: 5.000 – 8.000 € /
4.400 – 7.000 £ /
6,000 – 10,000 US$
An English “Penny Farthing”, c. 1885
Estimates (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. 1900
Estimate: 17.000 – 22.000 € /
15.000 – 20.000 £ /
20,000 – 27,000 US$
“Aubade à la Lune” Automaton by Gustave Vichy, c. 1890
Estimate:
18.000 – 20.000 € /
16.000 – 17.800 £ /
Rare “Thürey” Typewriter, 1909
Estimate: 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 £ / 300 – 18,000 US$
Wurlitzer “Peacock” Jukebox Mod. 850, c. 1941
Estimate: 25.000 – 35.000 € /
22.000 – 31.000 £ /
30,000 – 43,000 US$
Cuff-Type Compound Microscope, 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,
Nuremberg
Estimate: 30.000 – 40.000 € / 26.000 – 35.000 £ /
37,000 – 49,000 US$
Selection of Rare Live Steam Engines, 1880 – 1930
Estimates: 1.000 – 15.000 € /
880 – 13.000 £ / 1,250 – 18,000 US$
Grand Format Variations Musical Box by Nicole Frères, c. 1865
Estimate:
12.000 – 18.000 € /
10.000 – 15.000 £ /
14,000 – 22,000 US$