The outside is silver and has quite a few scratches and a few small dings.Can be beautifully restored.Has sterling silver mouthpiece.It was found inside an old original king case.The Instrument does work.
Original box contains complete set of records. When inner box containing records, is removed from outer box, the front half of the box folds down, and exposes an index of all the individual piano pieces. Each record is contained in it's own folder.
This an engraved, colored engraving. This image was originally published in 1775 as the 12th and image in a work titled "Suite d'Estampes pour servir a l'histoire des moeurs et du costume des François dans le dix-huitième siècle". A description and thumbnail of this print appears in the Fitzwilliam Museum database at: http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opac/search/cataloguedetail.html?&prire…. The sheet measurement match the museum's discription. About a 1/2 inch from the print border is an indention from the pressing. Here is he other information from that database.
Year: 1774-1775
Duclos, Antoine Jean (etcher) French artist, 1742-1795
Bosse, Louis (engraver)
Eberts, Jean Henri (inventor) French banker, printmaker, 18th c.
It looks like a Japanese bath house. It all looks hand painted. Has design on inside of top ring. Raised letters on bottom of vase looks like spelling out CH or DH.
