Cylinder Music Box
Cylinder Music Box
- Description (Brief)
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This music box was made by an undetermined maker in St. Croix, Switzerland, around 1880-1890. It is a cylinder music box, serial #1531, with 8 tunes. This music box has a single-piece comb with 43 teeth. The music box is activated with a crank wound spring. The tunes list for this music box is as follows
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Wang Baby, Baby
Martha
Red Hussar
Boccacio
The Poor Jonathan
Chimes of Normandy
Faust up to date
Erminie -
The Philadelphia music box manufacturer and dealer, Henry Grutsch & Sons imported the mechanisms from Switzerland and made the music box cases in their factory. The firm also repaired music boxes and sold other makes of music boxes.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- music box
- date made
- 1880-1890
- place made
- Switzerland
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- material (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 1/4 in x 14 3/4 in x 7 3/4 in; 13.335 cm x 37.465 cm x 19.685 cm
- ID Number
- 1982.0011.01
- accession number
- 1982.0011
- catalog number
- 1982.0011.01
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Elizabeth L. Wilkinson (through: Ripley W. Clarkson).
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Popular Entertainment
- Mechanical Musical Instruments
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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