Object Details
- Description
This music box disc was made by Regina Music Box Co. in Rahway, New Jersey, about 1904. It is Regina Disc #4588 - "Blue bell: March Song and Chorus," with music by Theodore F. Morse and lyrics by Edward Madden. 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
- user
- Meggers, Edith R.
- manufacturer
- Regina Music Box Company
- manufacturing date
- ca 1904
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Edith R. Meggers
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 27 in; x 68.58 cm
- Object Name
- music box disc
- disc
