Object Details
- Description
This music box disc was made by Regina Music Box Co. in Rahway, New Jersey, around 1897-1899. It is Regina Disc #4291 - "Wearing of the Green (Irish Song)." This disc is playable in a Regina Disc Music Box that can accommodate a 27” diameter disc.
This disc features the following patents:
U. S. Patent #417649, dated December 17, 1889 by Oskar Paul Lochmann for a music plate for mechanical instruments.
U. S. Patent #500374, dated June 27, 1893 by Gustav A. Brachhausen and Paul Riessner for a note-plate for music boxes.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- manufacturer
- Regina Music Box Company
- manufacturing date
- 1897-1899
- Credit Line
- Gift of John H. Bacon
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 27 in; x 68.58 cm
- Object Name
- music box disc
