Raffety & Walwyn

Dimensions

47.00cm wide   15.00cm high   19.00cm deep (18.50 inches wide  5.91 inches high  7.48 inches deep)

Description

A fine, 6 air, lever wind Music Box by this well known maker in a box veneered with walnut and strung with ebony. The original tune sheet lists the following airs

Rule Britannia
Waltz No. 1
God Save our Gracious Queen
Polka the Balmoral
Aunt Sally
Martha

As a departure from the practice of the vast majority of makers who usually signed on the bedplate, this instrument is signed as above on the back of the winding lever – see The Cylinder Musical-Box Handbook by Graham Webb who refers to Ducommun as “a good quality maker”


Frederick William du Commun-Girod was working in Geneva from 1840 to 1860 and clearly built this box with the English market in mind.