| There are other lovely pieces of musical art objects in | | | | Jean 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 music | | | | repair. Therefore, the music box and antique collector |
| boxes and antiques that the music box and antique | | | | need 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 barking | | | | Early Carillon and Automaton |
| dogs. | | | | A valuable prize for music box and antique collector |
| Musical Seals | | | | would be to find a music box, which plays on bells |
| The musical seal is a piece of musical jewelry. The | | | | instead 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 on | | | | appear on the open market and one of the most |
| them. They also are always made of gold and | | | | recent, 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 box | | | | in the salesrooms". |
| and antique collector needs to be very careful they | | | | Watches with Singing Birds and Barking Dogs |
| are not purchasing a fake imitation. David Tallis in | | | | The 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 a | | | | normal watch functions. When a special lever is |
| fake, you can usually see that the hole for the slide | | | | pressed, 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 Watches | | | | The barking dog musical watch has an animated dog |
| Musical watches were made for those who loved | | | | which barks and is displayed when the watch hours |
| "show off" accessories in the regency period. The | | | | change. This musical watch is quite rare and would be |
| maker of the first musical watch was Philippe Sameul | | | | a great addition for the collection of the music box and |
| Meylan, who made the watch with a radial disc type | | | | antique collector. |
| movement. The music played by most watches is | | | | For 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 anthems | | | | which 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 people | | | | expand your collection today? |
| such as Le Roy of Paris, Henri Capt of Geneva, and | | | | |