Posted 2 years ago
Jld9912
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Columbia music box I don't know know anything about it everything works on it and it's in good condition
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Posted 2 years ago
Jld9912
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Columbia music box I don't know know anything about it everything works on it and it's in good condition
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Google will help with ID.
This is the first that came up:
https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/decorative-objects/boxes/decorative-boxes/columbia-six-airs-swiss-cylinder-music-box-circa-1894/id-f_10226871/
Hi, Jld9912. :-)
racer4four is quite right. Google turns up more than a few examples of six, eight, ten, and 12 airs (songs) Columbia music boxes.
The history of Columbia music boxes seems a bit difficult to chase down, and this interesting piece illustrates how tangled the history of recorded music in general is:
https://www.intertique.com/TheColumbiaGraphophoneAndGrafonola.html
The author/OP might be able to point you in the right direction:
https://www.intertique.com/cgi-bin/contact_lynn.cgi
The 1894 patent mentioned in the 1stdibs listing:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US526499A/en