Title: | Blue Danube Waltz |
Date: | 1890s |
Material: | Tin |
Company: | F.G. Otto & Sons |
Location: | Jersey City, New Jersey |
Essentially a music box disc rolled up into a conic cylinder. This is a "C" cuff, the largest of three sizes. The Otto company stopped making these following a patent suit brought by the Regina Music Box Co., whose discs used the same "punched spur" technique to create pins.
F. C. Otto & Sons were located in an area of New Jersey that was home to a number of music box makers, including Regina and Aeolian. Before they made music boxes, Otto & Sons manufactured medical instruments.