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I have a Criterion Disc Music Box. I am looking for more information regarding this particular box.
The information I have was provided by a very nice woman at Panchronia Antiquities in Whitehall, NY.
Disc boxes were invented in 1884. Criterion Disc Music Boxes were made by F.G. Otto & Son in New Jersey. They were made up until about 1910 when the phonograph outdid the musical boxes. The size of the discs is 11½" and the outside of the box measures 14".
Below are pictures of the beautiful box and a list of the accompanying discs. Clicking on the pictures will bring up a larger and more detailed image.
Disc Number | Song Title | |
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???? | Standing on the Corner Didn't Mean No Harm | |
?248 | She Was Happy Till She Met You Song - Rosenfeld | |
3?4? | The Tyrolean Nightingale Song | |
3?49 | Doc Brown's Cake Walk Rag Time Dance | |
3006 | ForSaken | |
3008 | Morning Papers Waltz | |
3018 | Obersteiger, Don't Be Cross | |
3032 | Last Rose of Summer | |
3033 | Stephanie Cavotie | |
3034 | Artist's Life Waltz | |
3039 | The Silver Fish | |
3041 | Bitte Sohoen Polka | |
3043 | Hebenera From Carmen | |
3046 | Trovatore Miserere | |
3050 | Kiss Waltz | |
3051 | Freischuetz Hunters' Chorus | |
3070 | Radetzky March | |
3072 | The Tyrolean & His Child | |
3076 | Katy Mahone | |
3108 | Lucinda's Jubilee | |
3116 | The Pirates of Penzance Overture | |
3117 | Happy Days in Dixie | |
3118 | Whisper Your Mother's Name | |
3126 | Faust Waltz | |
3132 | Still Night, Holy Night Christmas Song | |
3133 | The Gipsy Baron Treasure Waltz | |
3136 | Dora Dean, Song | |
3137 | Dear Little Pouting Miss Prue | |
3143 | Dinorah, Dhadow Dance | |
3152 | La Czarina Russian Mazurka | |
3158 | Glory Glory Hallelujah - John Brown | |
3159 | I Love You In The Same Old Way | |
3225 | She's A Thoroughbred Song - Wayburn | |
3240 | The Black Hussah Dream Waltz: Milloecker | |
3244 | Legend of the Bells from Bells of Borneville, Plamouette | |
3245 | Olivette The Torpedo and The Whale Song - Audran | |
3246 | Farewell My Own True Love Song | |
3247 | Reissicers Waltz Weber's | |
3248 | Afterwards Song, Millen | |
3250 | In the Shadow of the Carolina Hills Song |
If you have any information about this music box, please send an e-mail to daniel@disneyguys.com
This advertisement was taken directly from a December, 1898, Harper’s Monthly Magazine.