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Miniature musical crank-boxes will serenade to the tune of Swan Lake and Greensleeves. Dear imagery obtained from our century-old paper archives graces this pair of music boxes. 2½”. VTC Exclusive!
Romantic Hurdy Gurdies
$ 12.95
A charming miniature phonograph adorned with Victorian art plays 12 Christmas classics performed by the Andrew Sisters, Bing Crosby and other classic favorites. Battery operated. Gift boxed. 12”. 1. Here Comes Santa Claus - Bing Crosby 2. Jingle Bells - Bing Crosby & The Andrew Sisters 3. Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Helms 4. Let it Snow - The Temptations 5. Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt 6. Santa Claus is Coming to Town - Bing Crosby & The Andrew Sisters 7. Silent Night - The Temptations 8. Silver Bells - Bing Crosby & Carol Richards 9. Sleigh Ride - The Andrew Sisters 10. The Christmas Song - James Brown 11. The Time of the Year - Brenda Lee 12. Winter Wonderland - Louis Armstrong
Harmonique Gramophone Musicbox
$ 139.95
Renowned for her beauty and talent, Madame Farrenc held the highest rank of pianist in the 1800s. A composer and instructor at the Paris Conservatory, her story is found online. Dresden style ceramic. Plays Greensleeves. 12 x 10”. VTC Exclusive!
Louise's Nocturne Music Box
$ 149.95
Animated miniature scenes come to life to the tune of holiday favorites when the drawer is opened! A delightful stocking stuffer or purse-sized amusement for youngsters. Wind key on bottom. 3.
Jingle Bells Matchbox Melody
$11.95 $ 8.99
An exacting replica of our coveted heirloom, this magnificent velvet parlor display is a mirrored decorative that harbours your loved ones’ faces in grand form. A drawer accommodates overflow photos. Wind-up. Holds 72 photos in a variety of sizes (5 x 7, 4 x 6, & 3 x 5”). 13” tall. Plays: Fur Elise. VTC Exclusive!
Musical Velvet Photograph Album
$ 199.95
Lamp posts, cross bridges and contented couples encircle a decorated fir. Plays We Wish you a Merry Christmas while figures revolve when the lid is lifted. Wind up. 6. VTC Exclusive!
Central Park in Winter Music Box
$39.95 $ 24.99
A rare peek into Santas hidden workshop. 7. Requires 3 AA batteries. Plays 8 Christmas carols. VTC Exclusive! Limited Quantities! While Supplies Last!
Santa's Workshop Musical Ornament Diorama
$39.95 $ 16.99
Monks in the tower ring in the Holiday season. A church scene can be viewed through the window behind nostalgic bottle brush trees. Chimes (random) or plays 8 classic Holiday carols. Resin. 8 x 11. AC adaptor included. Carols: Jingle Bells O Christmas Tree Silent Night Deck the halls The First Noel Joy to the World We Wish you a Merry Christmas Hark! The Herald Angels Sing VTC Exclusive!
Musical Church Bell Tower
$49.95 $ 39.99
The gaiety of the season is evidenced as the roof rises to reveal a hidden room in which Mama & Papa place the star upon the tree. 10. 8 holiday songs. Plays: Jingle Bells, O Christmas Tree, Silent Night, Deck the Halls, The First Noel, Joy to the World, We Wish You a Merry Christmas and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. VTC Exclusive!
Hidden Room Holiday Music Box
$99.95 $ 49.99
A winter diorama harbours handsome couples who glide and twirl to the tune of Strausss Skaters Waltz while musicians play on. 8 x 10. Resin. AC adaptor included. VTC Exclusive!
Waltzer's Music Box
$79.95 $ 49.99
Go ahead... take a peek! This moment isnt captured on film, but rather in ones memory. FAvorite holiday melodies accompany a glistening, mountain village view. 8 x 5. Requires 3 AAA batteries. Gift boxed.
Old Camera Music Box Diorama
$99.95 $ 79.99
A French white lantern harbours a different glow within. It was customary in Europe to decorate woodland firs ouside of the home on Christmas eve. A curious deer and squirrel gravitate towards the light. 13 x 6. Plays 15 year-round songs and 15 Christmas carols. Requires 3 AAA batteries.
Christmas Tree Lantern
$79.95 $ 59.99
One can almost smell the street vendors roasted nuts in crisp air resonant with laughter. Magnetic figurals glide to the sound of winter merriment under colored, blinking lights. Intriguing hand painted details invite the imagination. 16 x 10. VTC Exclusive!
Winter Folly Skater's Music Box
$ 119.95
Gleeful children peer through a parlour picture window into a wintry wonderland. Blowing snow dances upon a hand painted village scene. Plays 8 classic Christmas songs. 11. VTC Exclusive! Carols: Jingle Bells O Christmas Tree Silent Night Deck the halls The First Noel Joy to the World We Wish you a Merry Christmas Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Flurries Music Box
$49.95 $ 39.99
Galloping off the brittle pages of a Currier & Ives picture book, a horse-drawn wagon bears a party of well-dressed Victorian passengers. Motion and carriage sounds. 15. VTC Exclusive! Limited Quantities! While Supplies Last!
Christmas Carriage Ride
$ 79.95
An harmonious Victorian family serenades the merry ol streets of England. Hand painted resin. Wind up key on base. O Come All Ye Faithful. 14. VTC Exclusive!
Dickens Carolers Musical Display
$ 29.99
An enchanted ride conjures youthful exhilaration. Plays Jingle Bells. Gift boxed. 5. ***This item will be en route to you mid-August.***
Calliope Carousel
$ 24.95
A miniature traveling circus summons the emotions felt in a dusty summer when colorful vagabonds came to town. Spotlights upon animated acrobats, horses and lions. A haunting soundtrack transports one there. 12. 50 songs. Gift boxed. Limited Quantities! While Supplies Last!
Big Top
$179.95 $ 129.99
Miniature musical crank-boxes will serenade to the tune of My Wild Irish Rose & When Irish Eyes are Smiling. 2. VTC Exclusive!
Irish Hurdy Gurdies
”bestseller
$ 12.95
Captured mid-stride to the tune of Blue Danube. Resin. 15. VTC Exclusive!
Broderick Bunny Music Box
$ 39.95
Every girl dreams of arriving at the ball in a horse drawn carriage. Ceramic. Simple assembly. Plays A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes. 19 x 8. Gift boxed. VTC Exclusive!
Cinderella's Carriage Ride Music Box
$119.95 $ 99.99
Plays 15 all occasion songs and 15 Christmas songs including; Blue Danube, Brahms Lullaby, Beautiful Dreamer, Danny Boy, Silent Night...and many more. Select songs to play on the hour or continuously. 14 tall.
Brass Chimes Musical Clock
$ 159.95
A Dickens village scene is performed before ones eyes. 25 carols & 25 year round classics. 12 x 8. Carols: The First Noël, O Come All Ye Faithful, Silent Night, Jingle Bells, Away in a Manger, Deck the Halls, Here We Come A-Caroling, The Twelve Days of Christmas, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Good King Wenceslas, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Up on the Housetop, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Joy to the World, Angels We Have Heard on High, Auld Lang Syne, Hark! The Herald Angel Sing, The Holly and the Ivy, I Saw Three Ships, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, What Child is This, O Tannebaum, Hallelujah Chorus, We Three Kings of Orient Are, O Holy Night. Classics: Blue Danube, Can Can, Skaters Waltz, The Entertainer, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, The Band Played On, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Danny Boy, For Me and My Gal, Oh, You Beautiful Doll, Shine on, Harvest Moon, Beautiful Dreamer, While Strolling Through the Park One Day, East Side,West Side, Give My Regards to Broadway, Down By the Old Mill Stream, When the Saints Go Marching In, Hail,Hail the Gangs All Here, Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair, I Wonder Whos Kissing Her Now, In the Good Old Summertime, Alexanders Ragtime Band, On Moonlight Bay, Peg O My Heart, Wait Til the Sun Shines, Nellie. ***Regrettably, this item is sold out for the 2012 holiday season.***
Merry Ol' England Animated Symphonium
$ 199.95
Figures dance upon the stage to the favorite holiday melody.  Windup mechanism.  4 x 2 x 3½.
Nutcracker Suite Theater

 $ 24.95
Miniature musical crank boxes will carol a loved one  in quaint fashion.  Four seasonal favorite melodies are appropriately paired with antiquated imagery obtained from our cherished archives.  2¼x1¾.   VTC Exclusive!
Holiday Hurdy Gurdies
”bestseller

 $ 19.95
With origins in Geneva, Switzerland, the Singing bird box first appeared before the close of the 18th century.  Pierre Jaquet-Droz is accredited for the invention.  Born in 1721, the theology student converted to the study of horology or automata.  There at Basel University, La Chaux de Fonds in the Swiss Jura, the enterprising young inventor was greatly influenced by the Bernoulli Brothers, professors of math and physics. Soon he was to marry and have a son, Louis, who would later accompany him in his work.   By 1770, it was published in a book Le Monde des Automata that Pierre had produced an early singing bird box in which  the birdsong was produced by a pipe organ requiring a separate pipe for each note.  In a short while, Jaquet-Droz partnered with Jean Frederic Leschot, Henri Maillardet.  A variable pitch whistle replaced the pipe organ voice, and was now able to be miniaturized.  By 1785 it was published in a british newspaper that the snuffbox-sized musical movements were the invention of this partnership.  The warbling music boxes were widely popularized throughout Europe and the reputation of Jaquet-Droz catapulted to distinguished heights.  For this reason, the Geneva-based firm established a London office. Though the product was made in Geneva, there has been confusion as to why the earlier coveted antique music boxes bear the name “Jaquet-Droz London”.  Maillardet ran the London office while Leschot, and Jaquet-Droz continued their business in Switzerland.   Pierre Jaquet-Droz died November, 1790 at the age of 69 (his son died a year later at age 39) ending the partnership with Leschot and Maillardet though the latter remained good friends. Leschot  continued to produce the music boxes using the name Jaques-Drot & Leschot London until his death in 1824.  Maillardet remained in London where he made and repaired singing bird boxes until his death in 1815.  He was capable of producing the basic mechanism, but sought help in obtaining the song or air cam which he ordered through Leschot from an outstandingly accomplished technician and mechanic named Jacob Frisard.   Frisard is an important name in the early singing bird box industry.  A full-time employee of Leschot until 1800, he then initiated his own practice with an expertise in designing and cutting the cam sets used to produce the birdsong.  He arranged his cams in a continuous spiral so that the no break occurred from the beginning to the end of the melodic warble. This was his distinctive design and he made many.  Sadly, he was less of a businessman than inventor, and he died in 1812 after two unsuccessful exhibitions of his work in Zurich and Constantinople.   In 1814 Blaise Bontems was born in Le Menil, a village of eastern France.  He became a master clockmaker, and then started his own singing bird box business in Paris.  His designs featured life-sized birds with porcelain Limoges-painted panels on the sides of large cages.  These  unique singing bird boxes were exhibited at the London exhibition in 1851 and were entirely different than those of Jaquet-Droz.  These Victorian models were available in nine varieties and were featured in a catalog dated 1910.  Three generations of the Bontems family carried on the tradition of singing bird box manufacture until grandson Luciens death in 1956.  The firm was then purchased by Reuge of St. Croix in Switzerland. (Note: VICTORIAN TRADING COMPANY is a distributor of Reuge products in the U.S. today.  They offer a more affordable Limoges-style musicbox as well- available for those wishing to enjoy the concept at a lesser expense.)   Another manufacturer of singing bird boxes is the Rochat family.  Pierre Rochat was employed by Jaquet-Droz, and later was joined by his sons in Geneva where they produced the music boxes under the name Fréres Rochat (Rochat Brothers) stamped with FRand a 3-figure number.  It was left to this manufacturer to continue the singing bird boxes as Leschot had retired and Frisard had left the country. The family produced high-quality music boxes until 1849.     The last of the great makers of singing bird boxes in the true tradition of Jaquet-Droz is the Bruguier family.  Charles was born in Geneva in 1788, and later was employed in London where he worked on music boxes and other automata. His family returned to Geneva in 1823 where he further developed the mechanisms and enabled high-quality singing boxes to come within the reach of many people.  His boxes were stamped with C. Bruguier a Geneve followed by a 3-digit number and were produced until 1850.  After his death in 1862, the golden era of singing bird boxes came to an end.   Fortunately, the dying art of singing bird boxes has experienced a renaissance. The fact that the the original mechanism is still a standard for the music box production is in itself a sufficient tribute to the originator, Jaquet-Droz. However, the design was perfected by Karl Griesbaum in 1905 in Germany when he added safeguards and devices to include a slow-closing lid and safety device that prevents damage to the mechanism should the lid be closed during its play.  A Karl Griesbaum Workshop (meaning that the movements and mechanics are produced in exacting likeness to the originals manufactured in 1905) has been established in which the beloved music boxes are still being hand made in the Black Forest today.  Other than the stamped number insignia that represents the registered date of manufacture, these heirloom boxes are indiscernible from the originals and are truly appreciable.   We offer these coveted treasures to you with the happiness that such a delightful invention may prevail into the twenty-first century!   VICTORIAN TRADING COMPANY has aligned themselves with Siegfried Wendel, the only authorized manufacturer of the singing bird box today.  For an expense that many easily justify for jewelry, these rare and limited production art pieces are registered for verication as to an assured and increased value in years to come. Each is hand crafted of solid silver with feathered birds while utilizing ornamental motifs and mechanisms that have endured nearly 300 years. Loved ones will enjoy the birdsong along the way!
Singing Bird Boxes - Silver Warbler Box
$3995.00
Sensibilities will succumb to the richest, rullest music that sweeps one off to an Austrian castle. A beauty in both sight and sound, early classic inlay embellishes the lid and side panels. Spring-wound clockworks drive the 16 copper disc that provides five octaves and harmonic range. Optional electric motor or hand crank. Only 150 cabinets manufactured. Each is labeled with certified number. Baroque Music Box: 24w x 22d x 12h, Inlay Disc Cabinet (Stores 200 copper discs) 26w x 24d x 28h. *** Please allow additional time for delivery as this item is shipped directly from the manufacturer. Rush shipping and gift wrap are not available.*** Not available for International delivery
Victorian Music Box
$9999.00
An exacting replica of the coin-operated box found in every railway station at the turn-of-the-century, this handcrafted walnut cabinet is made in Switzerland by a master cabinet maker, signed and dated. A faithfully reproduced doll, meticulous embroidery, genuine dried flowers, and antique silks are employed within this hand-cranked reproduction that tinkles mechanically with the modest investment of a quarter! An investment for future generations to enjoy. 13 1/2 x 9 in. *** Please allow additional time for delivery as this item is shipped directly from the manufacturer. Rush shipping and gift wrap are not available.*** Not available for Canadian or International delivery
Railway Station Dancing Doll Music Box
$4995.00
Hold a melody in the palm of your hand...beautiful remembrances will brighten a loved ones day. Cameos are cast from antique conch shell carvings in faux stone. Acrylic case/brass movement. 2 1/2 x 2 VTC Exclusive! $17.95/ea. when you buy three or more. Discount taken at processing.
Cameo Music Boxes
”bestseller
$ 19.95
Having delved deeply into our brittle paper archives, four of our favorite springtime images have been applied to miniature crank musicboxes. The musical selelction includes: Swan Lake, Blue Danube, Moonlight Sonata & Fur Elise. VTC Exclusive!
Easter Hurdy-Gurdies
$ 19.95
Better known as St. Brigid of Kildare, the celebrated Irishwoman founded many monasteries and convents. Plays: “When Irish Eyes are Smiling” . Porcelain. 9”. Gift boxed.
Mary of Gael Angel Figurine
$ 49.95
She twirls on her toes in a traditional dance pose. Plays: “That’s an Irish Lullaby” . Wind-up mechanism. Hand painted resin. 7”.
Musical Irish Step Dancer
$ 29.95
An harmonious Victorian family serenade the merry ol streets of England. Hand painted resin. Wind up key on base. O Come All Ye Faithful. 14. VTC Exclusive!
Dickens Carolers Musical Display
$39.95 $ 29.99
March-inducing musical crank boxes celebrate our nation with pride!  Slide the box open to watch the music box play.  Pair of musical tunes: America the Beautiful and Star Spangled Banner.  2. VTC Exclusive!
"Old Glory" Hurdy Gurdies
$ 11.95
A captivating figurine is both melodious and lovely to behold. Plays Blue Danube. Ceramic. 8. VTC Exclusive!
Violet's Violin Music Box
$49.95 $ 39.99
Petite melody makers are graced with December insignias. Lovely holiday remembrances for loved ones. Acrylic case with brass movement. 2½ x 2. Candle/First Noel. Candy Cane/Dance of Sugar Plum Fairies. Wreath/White Christmas. VTC Exclusive!
Christmas Cameo Music Boxes
$ 19.95
A winter diorama within a gilded bell harbours a pair of twirling skaters who glide to the tunes of  Jingle Bells, Silent Night, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Joy to the World, The First Noel, O Christmas Tree, Hark the Herald Angels and Deck the Halls. 7. Requires (3) AA batteries not included.    VTC Exclusive!
Frozen Pond Music Box
$29.95 $ 19.99
You neednt knock to enter upon an enchanting melody...yours with a mere twist of the handle. Plays Ave Maria. 10.
Gothic Musical Door Knob Plaque
$ 39.95
he Porter Music Box Company revitalized the music box. With a selection that includes famous songs as Fur Elise, Clair de Lune, Treasure Waltz, & Moonlight Sonata. 18 songs, 30 minutes. Tracklist: 1. Canon-Parts 1, 2 and 3 2. Libestraum 3. LArlesienne Suite - Bizet 4. Moonlight Sonata 5. Clair de Lune 6. Elvira Madigan Concerto 7. Traumerei 8. Waltz In A Flat 9. Fur Elise 10. Treasure Waltz 11. Voices of Spring Waltz 12. Fascination 13. Emperor Waltz 14. Waves of Danube Waltz 15. Edelweiss Waltz 16. Lagunes Waltz 17. Morning Papers 18. Vienna Blood Waltz
Classical Moments Music Box CD
$ 19.95
Porters Limited Edition With a graceful bombay shape and magnificent marquetry on all sides, inlay motifs of pastoral scenes embellish this exquisite piece- each inlay painstakingly placed by hand. The richest, fullest music imaginable is generated by a spring-wound clockwork that drives a 15 1/2 copperplated disc. A gentle winding will provide approximately 20 minutes of melodious sound, five octaves and hauntingly beautiful harmonic range. Non-winding electric motor optional. *** Please allow additional time for delivery as this item is shipped directly from the manufacturer. Rush shipping and gift wrap are not available.*** Not available for Canadian or International delivery
Swan Elite Musicbox
$6995.00
An ornate fretwork cabinet with crank handle and multiple copper discs will transport the listener to a hauntingly familiar place. Derived from the century-old companys archives, this cabinet will play melodies as our great-grandmothers knew them. Truly a family heirloom to transcend generations. Select six discs from an archive of 1200! 17x19.5x10 *** Please allow additional time for delivery as this item is shipped directly from the manufacturer. Rush shipping and gift wrap are not available.*** Not available for International delivery
Porter Music Box
$9995.00