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Duccommun Girod 6 tune music box with exposed controls
Located in Zonhoven, BE
EEarly and exceptional music box by Ducommun Girod with "exposed contols" Ducommun Girod was one
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Early 19th Century Swiss Early Victorian Antique Music Boxes

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Bronze, Steel, Cut Steel, Other, Iron

Music Box by Nicole Freres playing 4 Tunes
By Nicole Frères
Located in Zonhoven, BE
this early music box plays 4 cheerful melodies on a 20.5cm cylinder as provided on the original
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Late 19th Century Swiss Victorian Antique Music Boxes

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Bronze, Steel, Cut Steel, Other, Iron

Very rare 4 tunes overture music box (attr. to Lecoultre)
By LeCoultre Cie 1
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Very nice and early overture music box, probably by Lecoultre (alltough unsigned). The key wind
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1840s Swiss Early Victorian Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Bronze, Steel, Cut Steel, Other, Iron

Antique 19th Century Swiss Hand Crank Cylinder Wooden Inlaid Music Box
Located in London, GB
Antique 19th Century Swiss Hand Crank Cylinder Wooden Inlaid Music Box Dimensions: 38 x 21 x 13 cm
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19th Century Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Wood

French 19th century sewing casket and music box
Located in Paris, FR
A mahogany sewing casket simulating a piano, with a hidden music box. Inside the casket a set of
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19th Century French Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Wood

Geneva music box with bells
Located in STRAČOV, CZ
Antique music box decorated with rosewood and marquetry. The machine has six melodies, it is marked
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1870s Swiss Neoclassical Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Wood

Functional Mid-19th Century Music Box
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A good looking and good playing charming mid 19th-century music box in the shape of a commode, the
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19th Century Austrian Charles X Antique Music Boxes

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Wood

19th Century Music Box Amboyna Brass
Located in Brighton, GB
19th century amboyna and brass inlaid music box Playing two tunes per revolution European, circa
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Late 19th Century Swiss International Style Antique Music Boxes

Regina music box with 12 disks
Located in Cathedral City, CA
Regina music box,Double comb ,12 disks included. Completely restored my Al Meekins, This box was
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19th Century American Antique Music Boxes

Music Box Swiss Origin, circa 1880
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
circa 1880 Music box Swiss origin. Playijg 2 tunes ([lays 2 tunes after activating) there is a
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1880s Swiss Belle Époque Antique Music Boxes

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Other

Allard Sandoz Swiss Music Box
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
A large Allard & Sandoz Swiss music box made from rosewood and sitting on a table with brass inlay
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Early 20th Century Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Brass

19th Century Nicol Freses Music Box Geneve
By Nicole Frères
Located in Brighton, GB
A music box by Nichol Freses, Geneve Playing two tunes per revolution. No.42098 (serial 43,000
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Late 19th Century Swiss International Style Antique Music Boxes

Victorian Carved Oak Clock and Disk Music Box Combination
Located in West Palm beach, FL
door opens to a disk music box with winder in good working condition. This clocks music box has 20
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19th Century Unknown Victorian Antique Music Boxes

Early 20th Century Music Box in Rosewood Cabinet
Located in Santa Ana, CA
This 19th century music box within a beautiful rosewood cabinet is in working condition. It plays
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Early 20th Century English Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Metal

Music Box by Ducommun Girod playing 8 Tunes in a 2 per turn setting.
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Very early fat cylinder music box. The mechanism has a 2 per turn setting, but plays 1 tune in 2
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Late 19th Century Swiss Early Victorian Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Bronze, Steel, Cut Steel, Other, Iron

Magician Music Box, Attributed to Phalibois of Paris, Circa 1880
By Henry Phalibois
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A French Animated Clown Magician Music Box, Attributed to Phalibois of Paris, Circa 1880 Please
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19th Century French Antique Music Boxes

An Austrian picture frame clock with music box, circa 1830
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A good Austrian picture frame clock with the music box signed 'Rzebitscher, Prag'. The unusual
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19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Music Boxes

An Imposing Swiss bells-in-sight Six Cylinder Music Box Samuel Troll, 1880
By Samuel Troll
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
An Imposing Swiss Mandoline And 'bells-in-sight' Interchangeable Six Cylinder Music Box And Desk
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19th Century Swiss Napoleon III Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Amboyna

Fire-Gilded Bronze, 19th Century Rouen Cathedral Clock with Music Box
By Bavozet Freres et Soeurs 1
Located in Lafayette, CA
with music box - 6-1/2" high,  1835, Paris The entirely complete fire-gilded bronze case represents
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Early 19th Century French Grand Tour Antique Music Boxes

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Bronze

A very rare animated German walnut standing disc music box, Kalliope, circa 1895
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
This music box has a Jockey automaton has an periferal driven double comb and bells 63.5-cm disc
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19th Century German Victorian Antique Music Boxes

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Wood

A Swiss Amboyna bells-in-sight Cylinder Animated Music Box, ca. 1880
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
with eight melodies and dancers, coin operated.
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19th Century Swiss Napoleon III Antique Music Boxes

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Amboyna

Cylinder Musical Box by Nicole Freres (Geneva)
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Early Fad Cylinder music box made in Geneva by Nicole Freres. This is a good example of those
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Mid-19th Century Swiss Early Victorian Antique Music Boxes

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Brass, Steel, Iron

Musical box with 6 Bells and 3 Automatons By G. Bendon
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Beautiful music box by Bendon. Made in about 1880 in Switserland by this well known manufacturer
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1880s Swiss Late Victorian Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Bronze, Steel, Cut Steel, Other, Iron

A rare Swiss mahogany disc music box, for the U.S. market, by Stella, circa 1880
By Stella
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
In a Louis XVI-style mahogany veneered cupboard with various discs in the compartment underneath.
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19th Century Swiss Louis XVI Antique Music Boxes

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Mahogany

Superb 18K gold "Sur plateau" musical snuff box purse form
Located in Zonhoven, BE
A superb gold music box, made by the craftsmen of Jean-George Remond & Co in Geneva between 1804
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Early 18th Century Swiss Other Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Bronze, Steel, Cut Steel, Iron, Gold

Vintage Gramophone with Original Box, Germany, 1920
Located in Lugano, Ticino
Vintage antique red music gramophone music box, from Germany.
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Early 20th Century German Antique Music Boxes

Decoupage Box
Located in Summerland, CA
Metal box with sheet music decoupage...marvelous!
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19th Century Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Metal

1907 Caille Venus Upright Slot Machine with Music
By Caille Brothers
Located in Aspen, CO
music box viewed through floral motifs in brass plays the tunes of Yankee Doodle Dandy and Grand Ole
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Early 1900s American Antique Music Boxes

Quai De Brancas Music Clock Painting
By Louis Vincent Fouquet
Located in Vancouver, BC
dated 'Borel jeune a Paris 1837' the repetition is signed ‘Montaudon 1837', the principal music box
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19th Century Old Masters Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Oil

Absolutely Superb English Regency Mahogany Bracket Clock
Located in Wells, ME
Absolutely superb English Regency mahogany bracket clock with brass inlay and music box works which
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19th Century British Regency Antique Music Boxes

Black Forest Carved Bear Musical Bench
By Black Forest
Located in Vancouver, BC
beautiful patina and is full of detail, down to the whitened teeth and red tongue. The music box is
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1870s Swiss Rustic Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Wood

European Silver Gilt Interior Antique German Listening to Music Scene Box
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dimensions: 5.5 x 3 5/8 x 1.5 in Weight: 8.5 toz.
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Early 20th Century German Antique Music Boxes

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Silver

Paillard Cylinder Music Box on Stand
Located in Montreal, QC
Paillard burled walnut and ebony music box on later stand, with hinged top to glass encased
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19th Century Swiss Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Steel, Brass

Early 20th Century Orientalist Music Box.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
" Early 20th century Orientalist music box. " Box, music box, early 20th century Orientalist work
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Early 20th Century African Islamic Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Wood

Beautiful Bronze Windmill Music Box
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A beautiful Bronze Windmill Music box and enamel plates hand painted with romantic scenes in the
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1880s Austrian Napoleon III Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Bronze, Enamel

Spanish Music Box 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Music box Spanish, 19th century Box in mahogany wood and mahogany root with inlaid inlaid
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19th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Wood

Spanish Inlaid Marquetry Jewelry Music Box
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Spanish inlaid Marquetry music box, cigarette box. Handcrafted in Spain in the Moorish Syrian
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Late 19th Century Spanish Moorish Antique Music Boxes

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Bone, Wood

Mandolin Singing Bird Automaton Music Box
Located in New Orleans, LA
This exceptional singing bird cylinder music box is a wonder of Austrian mechanical ingenuity. Not
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19th Century European Other Antique Music Boxes

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Satinwood

Rare German Music Box, 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
MUSIC BOX German, from the end of the 19th century. movement, mechanical, with 10 songs. On
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19th Century German Renaissance Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Wood

Thirty Antique Regina Music Box Discs
By Regina Music Box Co.
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique set of 30 Regina music box discs, 15.25" diameter, 20th century Measures - 15.25
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Early 20th Century American Victorian Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Metal

Antique Oak Regina Double Comb Disc Music Box Player with Ten Discs, circa 1890
By Regina Music Box Co.
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique Regina music box offers oak case with double comb player and includes ten discs and
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19th Century American Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Metal

Regina Music Box
Located in Petaluma, CA
Regina Music Boxes were the Cadillac of all music boxes. Throw out your iPod, your stereo, your
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19th Century American Victorian Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Metal

Traditional Antique 19th Century Music Box with Inlaid Case
Located in New Orleans, LA
An enchanting music box in fine working order. Traditional antique 19th century music box with
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Late 19th Century Swiss Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Mahogany

Mermod Frerès Station/Showcase Cylinder Music Box
Located in New Orleans, LA
firm of Sainte-Croix, Switzerland is a marvel of music box craftsmanship. Though the window, the viewer
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19th Century Swiss Antique Music Boxes

Regina Disc Music Box with Stand
By Regina Music Box Co.
Located in New Orleans, LA
This outstanding disc music box was created by the Regina Music Box Company of New York. The box
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19th Century American Other Antique Music Boxes

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Mahogany

19th-Century Jewelry Case with Swiss Reuge Music Box
Located in Opole, PL
19th-century jewelry case with Swiss reuge music box We present you a delicate jewelry case with
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Late 19th Century Swiss Antique Music Boxes

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Wood

Swiss Oak Wood Cylinder Music Box, 19th Century
Located in Astoria, NY
Swiss Oak Wood Cylinder Music Box with handle on stepped based and scroll relief carvings, 19th
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19th Century Swiss Antique Music Boxes

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Oak

Napoleon III Inlaid Wood Marquetry Billet-Doux Cylinder Music Box
Located in Paris, FR
Rare and astonishing billet-doux cylinder music box. This love-letter music box is set within a
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Mother-of-Pearl, Wood

Antique Viennese Enameled Bronze Carrige Form Music Box
Located in New York, NY
Antique (late 19th century) Viennese Austrian music box in the form of a luxurious carriage in the
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Late 19th Century Austrian Louis XV Antique Music Boxes

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Bronze, Enamel

Sublime Harmonie Music Box
Located in New Orleans, LA
A captivating and exceptionally engineered Swiss Sublime Harmonie six cylinder music box with
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19th Century Swiss Victorian Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Satinwood, Walnut

Swiss Made Music Box from the End of the XIXth Century.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Swiss made music box from the end of the XIXth century. Swiss made music box from the XIXth
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19th Century Swiss Napoleon III Antique Music Boxes

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Wood

Vintage Jennings Brothers Brass Plated Art Deco Style Music Box
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
This is a small, brass-plated art deco music box, initially marked with "JB" on the underside. It
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Late 18th Century Swiss Art Deco Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Brass

Forty Five Antique Regina Music Box Discs, circa 1890
By Regina Music Box Co.
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique lot of forty five 15" Regina Music Box discs, circa 1890 Measures: 1/64" height x 15
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Late 19th Century American Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Metal

Cigar and Music Box, Early 20th Century, Napoleon III Style.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Cigar and music box, Early 20th Century, Napoleon III style. Cigar box and music box, early 20th
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Early 20th Century French Napoleon III Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Stone, Alabaster, Metal, Silver Plate

Music Box, Tail Piano, Austria, End of the 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Music box in the shape of a grand piano, Hand painted enamel of romantic scenes, Austria, end of
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Brass

Antique Petite Cylinder Music Box, Grain Painted Case, circa 1890
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique Swiss petite cylinder music box offers grain painted case with top opening to reveal
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19th Century Swiss Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Brass

Columbia Six Airs Swiss Cylinder Music Box, circa 1894
Located in Evergreen, CO
In good working condition, this Swiss music box plays six songs, which are listed under the
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1890s Swiss Antique Music Boxes

Materials

Brass

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Antique Music Boxes For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are several options of antique music boxes available for sale. The range of distinct antique music boxes — often made from wood, metal and hardwood — can elevate any home. There are all kinds of antique music boxes available, from those produced as long ago as the 18th Century to those made as recently as the 20th Century. There are many kinds of antique music boxes to choose from, but at 1stDibs, Victorian, Baroque and Folk Art antique music boxes are of considerable interest. Antique music boxes have been a part of the life’s work for many furniture makers, but those produced by Regina Music Box Co., Baptiste-Antoine Brémond and Jerome Thibourville Lamy are consistently popular.

How Much are Antique Music Boxes?

The average selling price for at 1stDibs is $3,644, while they’re typically $180 on the low end and $128,500 highest priced.
Questions About Antique Music Boxes
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    It depends on the make and model of the music box. To find the value of a music box, experts suggest that you work with a certified appraiser. The value of a music box will depend on a number of factors, including the shape it’s in. You’ll find expertly vetted music boxes on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022
    A Polyphon music box is a wooden box that plays small interchangeable metal discs. Polyphon Musikwerke invented the device in 1870 and began producing them for sale in 1897 in Leipzig, Germany. Find a variety of Polyphon music boxes on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    The box that plays music is called a music box in the U.S. and a musical box in the UK. Early versions date back to the 19th century, and many of them came from factories located in Switzerland. Shop a large selection of antique and vintage music boxes on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertAugust 17, 2021
    The best music box for you depends on your preferences for design, size, and music. Music boxes may be intricately carved or brightly-colored, and contain musical themes from famous plays or films. Music boxes can also be musical boxes designed to hold jewelry or other trinkets.
  • 1stDibs ExpertAugust 24, 2021
    Regina music boxes have musical information carefully stored on a metal disc. A Regina music box works when the holes in the disc engage with the teeth of a gear that leads to the plucking of a musical comb generating a pleasant sound.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    The first music box was likely made in Switzerland around the end of the 18th century. Originally, most music boxes were quite small, but as time went on, larger versions developed. Shop a collection of antique and modern music boxes from some of the world’s top sellers on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Yes, music boxes are still made today. A number of artisans continue to produce music boxes by hand. Companies may also mass produce music boxes using machinery. On 1stDibs, shop a collection of music boxes from some of the world’s top sellers.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    An old music box made from snuff boxes during the 18th century is called a carillons à musique. It is a French word meaning "chimes of music." You'll find a selection of antique music boxes from some of the world’s top sellers on 1stDibs.
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