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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 332794, member: 55&quot;]Perhaps a music-box, missing the figure on the top that would rotate while the music played.&nbsp;&nbsp; The last photo seems to show the case for a mainspring, and the lever looks like something that might be found on a music-box.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#039;t see a winding key, but perhaps it was of the sort where one turns the figure clockwise to wind, then the figure rotates counter-clockwise while the music plays.&nbsp;&nbsp; Perhaps there are missing parts; I don&#039;t see the cylinder one would expect on a music-box.&nbsp;&nbsp; So maybe the automaton suggestion was a good one; a base for a figure (now missing) that rotated, without music.</p><p>I found part of a reference to a Charles Albrecht in association with music-boxes and nickleodeons from 1885, but haven&#039;t been able to track it down, due to coming across a virus-infested webpage during the search.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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