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Geneva, Dec 08, 2022

LOT 529

Attributable to Karl Griesbaum
Singing-bird box; gilded metal

CHF 3,000 - 6,000

EUR 3,100 - 6,100 / USD 3,200 - 6,400 / HKD 24,900 - 49,700

Sold: CHF 3,750

Gilded metal, key-winding, horizontal rectangular-shaped, singing-bird box.

Rectangular box made of embossed metal panels, on all sides and on the horizontal oval cover, showing birds and foliage.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Brand Karl Griesbaum, Triberg (Black Forest)

Year circa 1920-1940

Movement No. unnumbered

Case No. unnumbered

Material gilded metal

Caliber rectangular (95 x 60 mm.) brass, going barrel, bellows and cams; the revolving bird with moving wings, beak and tail, controlled by two cams mounted beneath the barrel wheel

Dimensions 40 x 100 x 65 mm. (approx.)

Weight 480 gr. (approx.)

Accessories silvered metal winding-key (in the shape of a bird)

Notes

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 Fürtwangen, 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.