Disk Music Boxes
Mechanical Marvels dating from 1885
Regina Style 37 Auto-Changer
This large auto-changer plays size 20.75” disks, filling your home with music. It was professionally restored in recent years and is in wonderful playing and cosmetic condition. It will be furnished with a set of new disks as well. Very few of this enlarged version of the smaller 15.5” Style 35 were made and they are prized collector’s items today.
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#366
Incoming: Regina Style 8a Autochanger
A very nice, original example, playing 27” disks. We will furnish a brand-new set together with the music box. This piece is currently en-route to us and should be here soon.
#370
Symphonion Style 30a
A gorgeous, walnut-cased disk player, made by Symphonion c.1890 in Leipzig, Germany. Plays size 13.75” disks on twin sublime harmonie combs. This deluxe model has a hinged glass cover for the music mechanism, ornate corner posts, brass lifting handles, etc. Best of all, it plays great!
#368
Regina Style 11
This excellent mahogany Regina plays 15.5” disks and has recently been restored. A very attractive, well-playing instrument.
#363
Criterion Hand-crank Model 00
Made c.1895 by F.G. Otto of New Jersey, who invented the “Capital Cuff” music box, this was their earliest entry into the disk genre. This type of music box is sometimes referred to as a “manivelle”, and it required turning of the front crank to play the 8.75” disk. The 44-tooth comb produces a very nice sound and the solid oak case is in excellent condition. Five disks are included, including some Christmas titles.
#358
Incoming: Stella “Grand”
A magnificent Stella, with carved oak cabinet and matching table. This is a double-comb model playing 17.5” disks. We will have it here shortly.
#371
In order to compete with the onslaught of "talking machines", Regina very wisely decided to embrace the concept by combining them with music boxes, giving the purchaser the best of both worlds, so to speak.
Some Reginaphones were adaptations of earlier music boxes; others (such as the "Lion's Head" model) were ground-up designs, intended to incorporate the finest acoustics and aesthetics of the day.
As with all Reginas, they were of sturdy and lasting construction. The phonograph components were made by Columbia and sometimes even marketed under the "Columbia Grafonola" nameplate.
Reginaphones are prized by collectors around the world.
Reginaphone Style 139 & Base Cabinet
An absolutely fantastic Reginaphone Style 139, in a mahogany serpentine-shaped case with "ventilated" cupola style lid, allowing full volume and resonance of the music box to be heard even when closed.
Plays 20.75" disks, which can be conveniently stored in the matching, original base cabinet.
With mahogany horn, this is the very best example of this style that we have ever seen, appearing and playing just how it would have 110+ years ago when it left the factory. Every aspect of this instrument is virtually flawless... none finer!
#312
Incoming: Reginaphone Style 240
We will soon be receiving this, the most popular of all Reginaphones. The curvaceous body, adorned with hand-carved lions, houses a double comb Regina music box with short bedplate. Regina cooperated with the Columbia Phonograph Company, who supplied the turntable and tone arm assemblies. Made in 1908, to take advantage of the newly burgeoning phonograph, while at the same time accommodating Regina’s long-time music box customers.
#369