Object Details
- Description
This music box disc was made by Lloyd G. Kelley, successor to the Regina Music Box Company, in Hanover, Massachusetts, 1950s. It is Regina Disc #1225 – “Push Dem Clouds Away” by Percy Gaunt. This disc is playable in a Regina Disc Music Box that can accommodate a 15-1/2” 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
- Credit Line
- Gift of J. B. Nethercutt
- 1950s
- ID Number
- MI.73.01.18.20
- catalog number
- 73.01.18.20
- accession number
- 301414
- maker number
- 1225
- patent number
- 500374
- 417649
- Object Name
- disc
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/16 in x 15 1/2 in; .15875 cm x 39.37 cm
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Hanover
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Popular Entertainment
- Mechanical Musical Instruments
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1854316
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-876b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
