Musical Snuff Box
date: label: date made
content: 1830 - 1840
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This music box was made an undetermined maker, probably Switzerland, around 1830-1840. It is a musical snuff box, with 2 tunes. The music box has a segmented comb with 16 4-teeth sections. The cylinder is 2-15/32" long. The music box is activated by a key wound spring. Carved on the music box top:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>HOTEL DES MONNAIES</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Clever miniature portable devices, musical snuff boxes such as this one were called <i>carillons à musique</i>. Highly desired objects of status and crafted primarily in Switzerland, they influenced the development and popularity of all music box production in the 19th century. This musical snuff box was likely a souvenir from the Hôtel des Monnaies in Paris.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Mechanical Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of E. M. Marbury
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.204576a
label: accession number
content: 36046
label: catalog number
content: 204576a
objectType: label: Object Name
content: music box
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tortoise shell (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (works material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (works material)
label: Physical Description
content: horn, semi-transparent (inner lid material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: music box: 3/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 1.905 cm x 8.255 cm