A rare Monopol chalet disc musical box,

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A rare Monopol chalet disc musical box,
model 45Sch, with double-comb 11-inch movement beneath hinged roof, the walls painted with half-timbering, door and windows, with coin-slot in front drawer in the rocky plinth and plaque Mettez une Pice de 10 Centimes -- 18in. (46cm.) wide, circa 1890, with six discs (7)

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Illustrated in the Bowers Encyclopaedia of Automatic Musical Instruments, Page 130. Surviving examples seem to be very few and far between. The movement has the Symphonion comb arrangement, and will accept Symphonion discs.

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