POLYPHON MUSIKWERKE company, Polifon in cabinet form

wood, glass, brass, steel; height 98 cm, width 70 cm, depth 50 cm.
Germany, Leipzig, late 19th century.
Polyphon in a furniture case, eclectic, in the form of a cabinet on turned baluster legs at the front, with glazed, single-leaf doors with a frame closed with an arch and openwork "speakers" in the upper corners. The door is flanked by turned columns with Ionic capitals. In the finial a cornice with a stylized motif of an ox-eye and an inscription in the middle: "Polyphon" between two stars. Inside placed comb mechanism, plate, with spring tension, activated by a crank located on the side.
Preserved two perforated steel plates.
Such devices were the prototype of later jukeboxes.