| The music box has a long and interesting
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| | snuffboxes, and other types unique is
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| history. Long before collectors sought
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| | that music results when the teeth of a
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| the dresser top music jewelry boxes,
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| | tuned, steel comb vibrate when plucked by
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| inlaid music boxes, and pop up ballerina
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| | tiny pins protruding from the cylinder.
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| music boxes that are the popular today,
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| | Many collectors today highly value these
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| the cylinder or disc driven music box was
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| | music boxes and love to add then to their
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| the entertainment in many homes in the
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| | collections. Favorites include those
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| 1800?s. These vintage music boxes,
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| | manufactured during the 18th century by
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| ranging in size, style, and value are
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| | Lecoultre, Nicole Fre'res, and Ducommon-
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| still sought today by many collectors of
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| | Girod.Making cylinder music boxes was
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| automatic musical instruments.David Le
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| | quite the art until 1875. Many craftsmen
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| Coultre first created the cylinder music
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| | worked in their homes assembling various
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| box in Switzerland. around 1870, while
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| | parts and then took them to factories to
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| Mermod Fre'res was the largest
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| | complete.Up until the Civil War, cylinder
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| manufacturer of the cylinder musical
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| | music boxes were rather plain. Then,
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| instruments in St Crox. Years later the
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| | manufacturers began making more elaborate
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| highly collectible disc driven music
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| | cases with brass, wood inlays, tortoise
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| boxes were also made in France, Germany,
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| | shell, and mother of pearl.The years
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| Austria, Czechoslovakia, and other
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| | 1890-1914 marked the end of time for
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| countries.While there were numerous
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| | large cylinder automatic musical
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| companies making music boxes, Mermod
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| | instruments. In his "Encyclopedia of
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| Fre'res, active during the 1800's was one
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| | Automatic Musical Instruments", Q. David
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| of the few who manufactured both a
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| | Bowers states, "The disc-type box, as
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| cylinder music box and a disc driven
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| | made by Polyphon, Symphonion, Regina, and
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| automatic musical instrument. Two of the
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| | others, drove cylinder instruments from
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| most popular ones by the company were the
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| | the marketplace. Mermod Freres made fine,
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| "Stella" and "Mira", made during the late
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| | large cylinder instruments in the 1890's,
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| 1890's, were made of oak in furniture
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| | but by 1900, World War I ended what was
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| styles popular in the states during that
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| | left of the cylinder music box
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| time.What makes the cylinder music box,
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| | industry.So ended the age of the
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| inlaid music boxes , and musical
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| | cylinder, disc driven music box.
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