Paillard & Cie. Cylinder Music Box
date: label: date made
content: 1838 - 1842
name: label: maker
content: Charles Paillard & Cie.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This music box was made by Charles Paillard & Cie. in St. Croix, Switzerland, around 1838-1842. It is a cylinder music box, Serial #1923, with 2 tunes. The music box has a cylinder with a one-piece comb with 50 teeth. The cylinder is 2-7/16" long. The music box is activated with a key wound metal spring.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>John Howard Foote (1833-1896) was a musical instrument dealer with shops in New York City and Chicago. This instrument listed in an 1880 J. Howard Foote catalog, sold as a small size music box (#6823), for $4.20.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Switzerland
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Mechanical Musical Instruments
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Densmore, Frances. Handbook of the Collection of Musical Instruments in the United States National Museum.
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J. Howard Foote
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.055714
label: accession number
content: 11535
label: catalog number
content: 55714
label: serial number
content: 1923
objectType: label: Object Name
content: music box
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: lacquer (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in x 4 1/8 in; 4.445 cm x 5.715 cm x 10.4775 cm