Regina 20-3/4" Double Comb Disc Music Box

Disc music boxes are equally scarce having been made between 1885 and 1905. They were made in a variety of qualities and sizes, playing discs of 6" diameter on up to huge machines playing 27" discs. The Germans and Americans dominated this market with only a small percentage of disc boxes produced in Switzerland.

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Silver Fox Violano Virtuoso Plays Violin and Piano

The Mills Violano Virtuoso stands among the most complicated and captivating automatic musical instruments ever produced. The musical arrangements are programmed on paper rolls and read by hundreds of wires that send signals to the violin and the piano mechanisms. This rare machine was made only by the Mills Novelty Co of Chicago in the 1920′s and still draws a crowd whenever it is played.

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Monumental Super Mandoline Cylinder Music Box on Table

Swiss cylinder music boxes were only made in any quantity from about 1880 to 1895 and were so expensive to produce that few families could afford them.Thanks to this great period of prosperity coupled with a capable and ambitious music box industry, large-scale cylinder boxes were made with powerful movements playing a variety of sophisticated musical arrangements, typically on one fixed cylinder. If price was no object, the buyer could commission a music box with multiple interchangeable cylinders and even specify the tunes they desired.

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L'Englise de la Madeleine automaton painting clock.

The church depicted in this painting clock is very likely L'Englise de la Madeleine, L'Englise Sainte Marie Madeleine, or simply La Madeleine, which is a church dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene in Paris. This church was originally designed as a temple to the glory of Napoleon's Army.

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Music Box Desk Form with Interchangeable Cylinders

Swiss music box in desk form with interchangeable cylinders, six with six tunes each and mandoline pinning and engraved tune card. Serial #10346. Restored with a one year warranty. Cylinders: 13" x 2-1/2" To see more about this music box, click here