"The New Bully" and "Yankee Doodle"
"The New Bully" and "Yankee Doodle"
- Description
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This music box disc was made by Regina Music Box Co. in Rahway, New Jersey, about 1896. It is Regina Disc #4038 - "The New Bully" and "Yankee Doodle." This disc is playable in a Regina Disc Music Box that can accommodate a 27” diameter disc.
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This disc features the following patents:
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U. S. Patent #417649, dated December 17, 1889 by Oskar Paul Lochmann for a music plate for mechanical instruments.
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U. S. Patent #500374, dated June 27, 1893 by Gustav A. Brachhausen and Paul Riessner for a note-plate for music boxes.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- music box disc
- disc
- manufacturing date
- ca 1896
- user
- Meggers, Edith R.
- manufacturer
- Regina Music Box Company
- place made
- United States: New Jersey, Rahway
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 27 in; x 68.58 cm
- ID Number
- MI.74.12.08
- catalog number
- 74.12.08
- accession number
- 314637
- maker number
- 4038
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Edith R. Meggers
- 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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