SINGING BIRD BOX SILVER GILT
Swiss, Designe Fecit, circa 1843.
Fine and rare gilt silver singing bird box. Accompanied
by leather fitted box signed E.W. & S. Phillips, Leeds.
Rectangular, florally engraved over engine-turning,
bird lid finely engraved with coat of arms
Rectangular, 85 x 45 mm. brass, turned pillars,
fusee and chain, rectangular bellows, bird with moving
head, flapping wings, opening beak and tail, eight
cams controlling the piston and the bird's beak and
tail, two additional for the other movements, long
duration of song with natural bird song, precision
cam-controlled lifting mechanism, gold grill pierced
and engraved with floral pattern.