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
Regina Style 8a Autochanger
A very nice, original example, playing 27” disks. Has the original gallery and finials. We will furnish a complete 12-disk set together with the music box. This is a coin-op model, playing on a nickel.
#370
Regina Style 11
This excellent mahogany Regina plays 15.5” disks and has recently been restored. A very attractive, well-playing instrument.
#363
Regina Style 9
This richly carved, ornately cased Regina plays 15.5” disks on duplex combs and a long-running movement. We are offering this piece with 25 original disks!
#367
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
Stella “Grand”
A magnificent Stella, with carved oak cabinet and matching (modern) table. This is a double-comb model playing 17.5” disks, 15 of which are included.
#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
