Mermod Freres Stella Disc Music Box
date: label: date made
content: ca 1897
name: label: maker
content: Mermod Freres
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This music box was made by Mermod Freres in St. Croix, Switzerland, about 1897. It is a Stella disc floor model #268, serial #3819, with a lower compartment with 12 slots for holding discs. This music box has double comb of 84 teeth each. The music box plays 17 1/4" diameter perforated metal discs. The spring is crank wound. Accessioned with 61 discs (MI.381443.01 - .61).</p>
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content: <p>This music box features the following patents:</p>
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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 #557349, dated March 31, 1896, by Alexis Vernaz, for improvements in music boxes.</p>
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content: <p>U. S. Patent #565649, dated August 11, 1896, by Alexis Vernaz, for a device for adjusting sprocket wheels in musical instruments.</p>
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content: <p>U. S. Patent #585578, dated June 29, 1897, by Aristides H. Jacot, for improvements in music boxes.</p>
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content: <p>According to the accession correspondence, this music box and accompanying discs were purchased by the donor in Worcester, Massachusetts, July 25. 1901</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: Gift of Louella C. Perry (through: James E. Farrell)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.381443
label: accession number
content: 159680
label: catalog number
content: 381443
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: 37 3/4 in x 29 5/8 in x 22 1/2 in; 95.885 cm x 75.2475 cm x 57.15 cm