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AEDZimbalist Nickel-Plated Taj Mahal Music Box with Swiss Thorens Movement
About Seller
522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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About Auction
LiveJun 14, 2026
Day 2 features 800+ lots highlighted by a Theodore Rousseau luminist landscape, works by Dietz Edzard, an Andrew Melrose watercolor, a striking Robert Atkinson Fox landscape, and a Charles Sidney Raleigh maritime scene. Explore fine art by Rembrandt van Rijn, Thomas Moran, H. Claude Pissarro, Louis Icart, and more, alongside an exceptional lifetime collection of Tiffany Studios lamps, a John Henry Belter attributed pier table, bronze sculptures, Pueblo pottery, Oriental rugs, Russian icons, Asian antiquities, Louis Comfort Tiffany glass, and other remarkable treasures. Sarasota Estate Auction sarasotaestateauction@gmail.com
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- Lot Description
Zimbalist Nickel-Plated Taj Mahal Music Box with Swiss Thorens Movement. The beautiful reproduction of the mausoleum has intricate detailing of the main structure and the surrounding four minarets, with four feet elevating the base it rests on. A knob on one side can be pulled out or pushed in to make the piece pause playing or continue once it is wound, with the winding knob on the underside. A label for Thorens on the bottom identifies the song as the "Merry Widow Waltz Dream," and another label indicates it was made "entirely by hand" in India.
Condition: Working.
Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/2 x 6 in.
The Zimbalist Music Box Company was founded by Russian immigrant Fred Zimbalist just after World War II in Cleveland, Ohio. Born in 1909 into a family of musicians, he fled from political unrest to Switzerland in the early 1930s, where he found work with the Thorens company developing music boxes. In the United States he produced many nickel-plated pieces shaped like animals, vehicles, and famous structures from around the world like the Taj Mahal and St. Basil’s Cathedral, commissioned from artisans in India and almost always utilizing Swiss movements from Thorens, with no two pieces ever exactly alike. The company peaked in the 1970s and saw a decline in sales in the 1980s that eventually led to them shuttering after the fall of the Berlin Wall, with Fred passing away from complications due to Alzheimer’s in 2003. Today, many of their pieces are sought by collectors for their high quality and uniqueness.
Condition
Working.
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5 1/4 x 5 1/2 x 6 in.
