Wayne NJ Mechanical Music Extravaganza Sunday Pictures

[wjw]

Might be my kaleidoscopic perception, but that music box in the next to last photo seems to have a conical drum?

That's a "Capital Cuff" music box, made in the late 1800's by F. Otto & Sons in New Jersey. It is a unique hybrid cylinder/disk machine, intended to evade Regina's patents. Otto also made Olympia, Criterion and other regular disk music boxes that got him into a patent infringement war with Regina.

The most prized Cuff machine is a double-comb model F, which goes for $25,000 and upwards. Only a few dozen of them were ever made. The one shown is the smaller model A or B and is more readily available.


Raphael

Thanks, Raphael. I figured this might be a patent skirting design although it does have merit for space saving with the extra selections!

[fonograph]

Hey Rich,
Do you know who had table in the 3450 jpeg? Looks like Charley's stuff.
Bob

[Stephen_Madara]

Hey Rich,
Do you know who had table in the 3450 jpeg? Looks like Charley's stuff.
Bob

Hi Bob, 3450 is my table, steve