Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces.
Hong Kong, Dec 12, 2018
LOT 348
UNSIGNED, ATTRIBUTABLE TO KARL GRIESBAUM, TRIBERG SINGING BIRD BOX
HKD 19,000 - 31,000
USD 2,500 - 4,000 / EUR 2,200 - 3,600
Gilded silver, enamel, key-winding, horizontal rectangular-shaped, singing bird box The scene painting on enamel on copper on the cover shows a young man playing mandolin courting two young woman.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: A |
Good |
Case: 3-8 |
Good Slightly scratched |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Brand Karl Griesbaum
Year circa 1930-1940
Caliber rectangular (90 x 50 mm.) brass, with going barrel, bellows and cams
Dimensions 104 x 66.5 x 46 mm.
Notes
Provenance Antiquorum, Geneva, May 15, 2016, lot 399, sold for the amount of CHF 5250.- Griesbaum, Karl (1872-1941) The firm Griesbaum was founded in 1905 in Germany, in the Black Forest, in Triberg (Baden-Wurttemberg), by Karl Griesbaum (1872-1941). He is the son of Mathias Griesbaum, a clockmaker. He began working as a micro-mechanic in the basement of his home. He has five children who will work with him: Mathias (1902-1974), Amalia, Helena, Caroline and Karl Joseph (b.1916). Mathias studied clockmaking in Furtwangen, pursued commercial studies in Karlsruhe, as well as in Switzerland. The most typical items of the Griesbaum House are probably their snuff-boxes with a singing bird, particularly those made in a style reminiscent of the traditional German silversmiths of earlier centuries, but also their boxes with two singing birds and those serving as boxes for cigarettes.