Hidden gem from the Michelangelo of musical boxes makes £54,000
François Nicole, the Geneva-based pioneer of the musical box, is thought to have made around 440 boxes during his working life, but only 60 are known today. Make that 61: courtesy of a local vendor another turned up at Cirencester auctioneer Moore Allen & Innocent on May 30.
It had been more than a decade since another of these unprepossessing boxes had appeared at auction.…