Passed
Description
22" (56 cm.) w. x 27"h. with lid open x 20"d. Presented in a handsome,lightly finished carved mahogany cabinet with cherubic image on the inside lid is a single-comb music box with one 15 1/2" zinc tune disc. F.G. Otto & Sons,New Jersey,United States,circa 1896. The firm is thought to have been the original supplier of carved wooden cabinets to The Regina Music Box Company. Thus having witnessed first-hand the success of Regina,the F.G. Otto firm decided to also enter the music box business. They sold the Criterion brand mainly through M.J. Paillard by New York. Although Regina sued the firm for patent infringement,Otto continued to make several brands in several case styles and for varying-sized discs. These ventures were short-lived,making the existing examples today of relative rarity.