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Post Auction Catalog(s)
Title: Bonhams Magnificent Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata
Auction held in: New York
Sale Date: 10/7/10
Sale No: 18556
No. of Lots: 49
No. of Pages: 109
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated in Color A Great Reference Source For Experts & All That Are Interested!!!
You will find: Musical Vertu, Cylinder Music Boxes, Disc Music Boxes, The Mark Yaffe Collection, Electro-Pneumatic Instruments and others.
Bonhams New York will present a special auction devoted to Vintage mechanical musical instruments and automata. Featuring a number of rare turn-of-the-century orchestrions, including $4 million of property from the famed Mark Yaffe Collection, this sale is cause for huge excitement in collecting circles. An orchestrion is a generic name for a machine that plays music and is designed to sound like an orchestra or band. For inside the magnificent cases, real working musical instruments are played entirely by machine. Orchestrions are most often operated by means of perforated paper rolls. In some cases these mechanical musical machines can also be operated by book music made from thick panels of cardboard held together with canvas. Orchestrions reached the height of their popularity in the early1920's during the advent of the Jazz Age, with popular German and other European makers such as Hupfeld, Weber, Philipps, and Popper modernizing their works to reflect the popular Bauhaus designs.
Bonhams New York will
present a special auction devoted to Vintage mechanical musical
instruments and automata. Featuring a number of rare turn-of-the-century
orchestrions, including $4 million of property from the famed Mark
Yaffe Collection, this sale is cause for huge excitement in collecting
circles.
An orchestrion is a generic name for a machine that plays music and is
designed to sound like an orchestra or band. For inside the magnificent
cases, real working musical instruments are played entirely by machine.
Orchestrions are most often operated by means of perforated paper rolls.
In some cases these mechanical musical machines can also be operated by
book music made from thick panels of cardboard held together with
canvas.
Orchestrions reached the height of their popularity in the early1920's
during the advent of the Jazz Age, with popular German and other
European makers such as Hupfeld, Weber, Philipps, and Popper modernizing
their works to reflect the popular Bauhaus designs.
The Mark Yaffe pieces are sure to be amongst the most highly sought
after lots in the sale, which is set to be the best held in New York
since 1950.
Highlighting the Yaffe collection is a circa 1925 Hupfeld Helios III/39
Orchestrion (est. $800,000-1,200,000); a circa 1926 Weber Maestro
Orchestrion (est. $500,000-750,000); a circa 1915 Philipps Paganini
Style 3 Orchestrion offered with 300 re-cut rolls (est.
$400,000-600,000); a circa 1912 Popper Iduna Orchestrion (est.
$200,000-300,000); and a circa 1894 Mermod Freres Plerodieniqué
Interchangeable cylinder musical box offered with 20 cylinders (est.
$60,000-90,000)
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Copyright © artdaily.org Bonhams New York will
present a special auction devoted to Vintage mechanical musical
instruments and automata. Featuring a number of rare turn-of-the-century
orchestrions, including $4 million of property from the famed Mark
Yaffe Collection, this sale is cause for huge excitement in collecting
circles.
An orchestrion is a generic name for a machine that plays music and is
designed to sound like an orchestra or band. For inside the magnificent
cases, real working musical instruments are played entirely by machine.
Orchestrions are most often operated by means of perforated paper rolls.
In some cases these mechanical musical machines can also be operated by
book music made from thick panels of cardboard held together with
canvas.
Orchestrions reached the height of their popularity in the early1920's
during the advent of the Jazz Age, with popular German and other
European makers such as Hupfeld, Weber, Philipps, and Popper modernizing
their works to reflect the popular Bauhaus designs.
The Mark Yaffe pieces are sure to be amongst the most highly sought
after lots in the sale, which is set to be the best held in New York
since 1950.
Highlighting the Yaffe collection is a circa 1925 Hupfeld Helios III/39
Orchestrion (est. $800,000-1,200,000); a circa 1926 Weber Maestro
Orchestrion (est. $500,000-750,000); a circa 1915 Philipps Paganini
Style 3 Orchestrion offered with 300 re-cut rolls (est.
$400,000-600,000); a circa 1912 Popper Iduna Orchestrion (est.
$200,000-300,000); and a circa 1894 Mermod Freres Plerodieniqué
Interchangeable cylinder musical box offered with 20 cylinders (est.
$60,000-90,000)
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Some examples from this landmark sale:
Sold for US$ 658,000 inc. premium
The exhibition Hupfeld
Phonoliszt-Violina, Model B, A unique and highly important
commission-made model, reputedly built for the 1911 Exhibition
Sold for US$ 482,000 inc. premium
A very fine and unique Hupfeld Helios
Model III/39 Orchestrion, Early 1910s, The Classical Case model, with
illuminated automaton
Sold for US$ 434,000 inc. premium
A Weber-Maesto Orchestrion, German, circa 1926, exceedingly rare late model
Sold for US$ 242,000 inc. premium
A Philipps Paganini Orchestrion, Circa 1915, Keyboard-less Style No. 3
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