Spring Motor - What Is It?

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Spring Motor - What Is It?

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Just brought home a large box of phonograph parts and am having a lot of fun trying to figure out what things are and do. Got a lot of the pieces figured out but this spring motor has me stumped. It is stamped LEVASSUER Frères but I don't find anything on the 'net with this search criteria. Here are some pictures. Any clue where this goes? Is it even a phonograph part?

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Re: Spring Motor - What Is It?

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music box, key wind type

(google "Frères music box", you'll find Mermod and Nicole)
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Re: Spring Motor - What Is It?

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Looks like a clock spring assembly (much like a Garrard) that someone has modified with the welded bracket. Who can tell what the purpose of it was since the rest of it is missing.
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Not familiar with LaVasseur as a music box or automaton manufacturer. Probably clock.
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I read that as Levavasseur Frères.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Levavasseur ?!
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Oops! Misspelled it! I wonder who his father was?
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