{"id":1420,"date":"2025-03-21T18:42:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T18:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/?page_id=1420"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:59:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:59:54","slug":"lot-93","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/?page_id=1420","title":{"rendered":"Lot 93"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lot 93<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: var(--theme-palette-color-5, #DFDFE2);\" class=\"stk-highlight\">Hilarious cabinet card featuring the Till Family Rock Band with their lithophone, which is a musical instrument consisting of a rock or pieces of rock which are struck to produce musical notes. The Till family was a 19th-century musical group from England that performed in the 1880s using a &#8220;rock harmonicon&#8221; or stone xylophone. Of course they became known as the first \u201crock band!\u201d They also featured string instruments, and one of their creative \u201cswinging harps\u201d is next to the cello and violins. A portable xylophone is also seen on the floor.  In addition, on the far-left side we see a pump organ. They were also known for playing musical glasses.\u00a0\u00a0The largest of their lithophones, which we see here, would weigh over a ton and half pounds! There is a fascinating article by Bradley Strauchen-Scherer about the family on the Metropolitan Art Museum\u2019s website: https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/perspectives\/wild-sound.\u00a0<br>The image shows the family in a grand parlor setting with a musical score that reads\u00a0<em>Grand Waltzes<\/em>. The image is in very good condition with very nice tones and contrast. There are a few spots with some being in the original negative. By Henry Mayson, Keswick. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: var(--theme-palette-color-5, #DFDFE2);\" class=\"stk-highlight\">Opening bid $60<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1438\" height=\"944\" src=\"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lot93.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lot93.jpg 1438w, https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lot93-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lot93-1024x672.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lot93-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lot93-768x504.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1438px) 100vw, 1438px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"846\" height=\"882\" src=\"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lot93a.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lot93a.jpg 846w, https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lot93a-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lot93a-144x150.jpg 144w, https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lot93a-768x801.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 846px) 100vw, 846px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lot 93 Hilarious cabinet card featuring the Till Family Rock Band with their lithophone, which is a musical instrument consisting of a rock or pieces of rock which are struck to produce musical notes. The Till family was a 19th-century musical group from England that performed in the 1880s using a &#8220;rock harmonicon&#8221; or stone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1420","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4531,"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1420\/revisions\/4531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitolgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}