Organette
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- OBJECT TYPE
- HAND-OPERATED/ROLLER
- DATE
- 1893
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1987.0254.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Autophone Co.
- MODEL
- GEM ROLLER ORGAN
- LOCATION
- Ithaca, New York, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 14
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Wooden case, cloth bellow, metal workings (some brass), felt pads on valves, cobs or rollers are wooden with metal pins, metal roller box (sheet metal)
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 38.4 cm
- Width
- 36.2 cm
- Height
- 19.1 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Communications
- Category
- Music
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Autophone
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- New York
- City
- Ithaca
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- PROBABLY 1890'S - EARLY 1900'S
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
Uses 6 1/2" "cobs" (13 provided) to play a tune on 20 organ reeds - Technical
-
Example of type of inexpensive home entertainment unit of the early 1900's - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Remnants of labels on rollers, each has No. and Title and "PATENTED JULY 14, 1885" / "THE GEM ROLLER ORGAN" in gold paint on organ casing / Directions and care printed on paper glued tounderside of organ
- Missing
- From CA of 01/31/1995 by Tony Missio: No - Complete
- Finish
- Crank handle painted black (now worn off centre), casing painted brown (worn off in some areas), roller box handle stained brown
- Decoration
- Gold paint decorations on organ casing
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Autophone Co., Organette, circa 1893, Artifact no. 1987.0254, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1987.0254.001/
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