Four Must Have Musical Art Objects for the Music Box and Antique Collector

There are other lovely pieces of musical art objects inJean Antoine Lepine of Paris to name a few.
addition to ballerina music boxes, music figurines,Some musical watches are difficult and expensive to
wooden jewelry boxes, and other types of musicrepair. Therefore, the music box and antique collector
boxes and antiques that the music box and antiqueneed to inspect a watch carefully before it is
collector can look for. These are the musical seal,purchased to ensure it is in good working order and
musical watches, early carillon and automaton boxes,not of inferior quality.
and musical watches with singing birds and barkingEarly Carillon and Automaton
dogs.A valuable prize for music box and antique collector
Musical Sealswould be to find a music box, which plays on bells
The musical seal is a piece of musical jewelry. Theinstead of steel teeth. Finding such a box as this would
musical movement typically is one with eight notes;be a rare find. David Tallis states: "Very few boxes
therefore, only very simple tunes can be played onappear on the open market and one of the most
them. They also are always made of gold andrecent, an enameled gold box containing a carillon
decorated with enamel and hard stones.musical movement, fetched several thousands pounds
Because musical seals are expensive, the music boxin the salesrooms".
and antique collector needs to be very careful theyWatches with Singing Birds and Barking Dogs
are not purchasing a fake imitation. David Tallis inThe rarest of most musical art is the musical watch
"Music Boxes: A Guide for Collectors" has this to say:with either a singing bird or barking dog. The singing bird
"If you have any doubts about buying a musical seal,has the mechanisms of the singing bird in addition to
look very carefully at the stop-start slide. If the seal is anormal watch functions. When a special lever is
fake, you can usually see that the hole for the slidepressed, a bird appears out of the watches side and
cover is cut rather crudely in the gold."on its back all the while singing a song.
Musical WatchesThe barking dog musical watch has an animated dog
Musical watches were made for those who lovedwhich barks and is displayed when the watch hours
"show off" accessories in the regency period. Thechange. This musical watch is quite rare and would be
maker of the first musical watch was Philippe Sameula great addition for the collection of the music box and
Meylan, who made the watch with a radial disc typeantique collector.
movement. The music played by most watches isFor the music box and antique collector, there are
Swiss traditional tunes such as "Ranz des Vaches".other interesting and unique pieces of musical art,
There also are some which play the national anthemswhich can be found in addition to ballerina music boxes,
of France and England.music figurines, and wooden jewelry boxes. Why not
Musical watches were made by a number of peopleexpand your collection today?
such as Le Roy of Paris, Henri Capt of Geneva, and