Cylinder Music Box
date: label: date made
content: 1880-1890
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This music box was made by an undetermined maker in St. Croix, Switzerland, around 1880-1890. It is a cylinder music box, serial #1531, with 8 tunes. This music box has a single-piece comb with 43 teeth. The music box is activated with a crank wound spring. The tunes list for this music box is as follows</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p> Wang Baby, Baby<br>Martha<br>Red Hussar<br>Boccacio<br>The Poor Jonathan<br>Chimes of Normandy<br>Faust up to date<br>Erminie</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>The Philadelphia music box manufacturer and dealer, Henry Grutsch & Sons imported the mechanisms from Switzerland and made the music box cases in their factory. The firm also repaired music boxes and sold other makes of 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: Popular Entertainment
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content: Mechanical Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Elizabeth L. Wilkinson (through: Ripley W. Clarkson).
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0011.01
label: accession number
content: 1982.0011
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0011.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: music box
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
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label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 14 3/4 in x 7 3/4 in; 13.335 cm x 37.465 cm x 19.685 cm