Triberg im Schwarzwald
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Triberg im Schwarzwald is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located in the Schwarzwald-Baar district in the Black Forest. Triberg lies in the middle of the Black Forest between 500 and 1038 metres
Triberg seen from the west
The world's largest cuckoo clock located in Triberg
Waterfalls c.1900
Illuminated waterfalls in winter
Singing bird box
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A singing bird box is a box, usually rectangular-shaped, which contains within a miniature automaton singing bird concealed below an oval lid and activated by means of an operating lever.
An unusual singing bird box by Frères Rochat, ca. 1810. The bird is shown in a tiny cage, not concealed inside the box as usual.
Frères Rochat work with independent musical movement and center-seconds, quarter-repeating watch, ca. 1820.
"Views of Switzerland", Charles Abraham Bruguier, enamel attributed to Louis Dufaux père, 1840s. Gold, marble, mother-of-pearl and painted on enamel, ruby and emerald-set musical singing bird box in the form of a paperweight.
Blaise Bontems ad published in 1878. The last line reads: "Tabatière avec Oiseau chantant" (Snuffbox with singing bird). So by the 1870s he was already making them.