85/739 Cylinder music box, maker and origin unknown, [c.1931] Music box, cylinder, 3 tunes, [1931]

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85/739 Cylinder music box, maker and origin unknown, [c.1931] Music box, cylinder, 3 tunes, [1931]

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Cylinder music box, maker and origin unknown, [c.1931] Music box, cylinder, 3 tunes, [1931]

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Cylinder music box, maker and origin unknown, [c.1931] Music box, cylinder, 3 tunes, [1931]

Carved rectangular wooden box with painted oval pastoral scene on lid; internal glass cover; 59 note comb; plays three tunes; mother-of-pearl button on left hand side changes tune; mother-of-pearl button on front operates stop/start; cylinder length: 69mm; key missing.

Made: 1931

Registration number

85/739

Production date

1931

Height

60 mm

Width

135 mm

Depth

85 mm

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Acquisition credit line

Gift of Robert S. Parker, 1985

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