"Adeste Fideles": Museum Object and Cultural History
"Adeste Fideles": date made: 1950s. Object Name: disc. Physical Description: metal (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
This music box disc was made by Lloyd G. Kelley, successor to the Regina Music Box Company, in Hanover, Massachusetts, 1950s. It is Regina Disc #1162 – “Adeste Fideles.” This disc is playable in a Regina Disc Music Box that can accommodate a 15-1/2” diameter disc.
U. S. Patent #417649, dated December 17, 1889, by Oskar Paul Lochmann for a music plate for mechanical instruments.
U. S. Patent #500374, dated June 27, 1893, by Gustav A. Brachhausen and Paul Riessner for a note-plate for music boxes.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1950s
- Object Name: disc
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 1/16 in x 15 1/2 in; .15875 cm x 39.37 cm
- place made: United States: Massachusetts, Hanover
- ID Number: MI.73.01.18.10
- catalog number: 73.01.18.10
- accession number: 301414
- maker number: 1162
- patent number: 500374
- patent number: 417649
- Credit Line: Gift of J. B. Nethercutt
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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