Mermod Freres Cylinder Music Box
date: label: date made
content: ca 1888
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This music box was made by Mermod Freres in St. Croix, Switzerland, about 1888. It is a cylinder music box, serial #94153, with 8 tunes. This music box has a single-piece comb with 38 teeth. The cylinder is 5-5/8" long. The music box is activated with a crank wound spring.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This music box features the following patents:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>U. S. Patent #326743, dated September 22, 1885, by C. Henry Jacot, for a safety-check for music boxes.</p>
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content: <p>U. S. Patent #374410, dated December 6, 1887, by Charles H. Jacot, for a motor for music boxes.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>U. S. Patent #382292, dated May 8, 1888, by Louis Campiche, for improvements in music boxes.</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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mildred Armistead Baker Ruttencutter, in memory of her mother Margaret Armistead Appleton Baker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.393522
label: accession number
content: 209041
label: catalog number
content: 393522
objectType: label: Object Name
content: music box
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/4 in x 17 1/4 in x 8 1/4 in; 14.605 cm x 43.815 cm x 20.955 cm