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Celebrating 50 Years Of Music Boxes
By Nancy Fratti

I wanted to share a few things with everyone:

1) This year marks my 50th Anniversary serving the needs of the
mechanical music community, buying, selling, restoring and providing
restoration supplies and advice.  As a 'thank you' for all who have
made this possible, I'm giving a 5% discount on all discs and supply
orders placed this year -- yes, the whole year!

2) As part of my celebration, I'm giving away a Sankyo 50-note crystal
cased music box at the end of the year.  The names of everyone who
orders during the year will be put in a 'prize box' and one winner
will be drawn at Thanksgiving time (appropriate)!

3) I just got in over 5000 discs of all types of brands and sizes.
It's going to take some time to get them all sorted out, put on
shelving and inventoried, but if you send me your 'wish list' I'll
head towards those piles first.

This makes a total of over 8500 discs currently in stock, from 4.5"
Thorens to 32" Lochmanns.  The 'new' stock is heavy on Polyphons
(6" to 24") and Symphonions (5-3/4" to 27"), but also has some pretty
rare discs like 25" and 32" Lochmann, Amorette, Piccolo, 'donut'
Phoenix (in 3 sizes) and Harmonyphon organette discs (2 sizes).
There are over 300 Kalliope discs (13-1/4"), Orphenions, Monopol,
Lochmann, and who know what else!

4) I have some 'new' stock in music boxes, including a Capitol Cuff
"C" coin drop on a table; a 13" Orphenion; 11" Adler/Fortuna; upright
19" Symphonion; 18" Mira in a console decal case; some drum/bell
cylinder boxes; early keywind boxes; sectional comb snuff boxes; 15"
Mira and Regina table tops; a rare _maple_ 15" Regina; a super rare
12" Miraphone; and an extremely rare 12" Reginaphone, short bedplate,
full serpentine console (only 21 made), and more!

I don't have a list 'cause it seems to be outdated as soon as I try to
type one up.  Email or call and let me know what you're looking for!

We'll be exhibiting at the Nazareth Antique Show in Rochester, New York,
on March 17th-18th; at Union, Illinois, the second weekend in June and
at the MBSI National Meeting later in the year.  See you there!

Happy collecting!

Nancy Fratti - Nancy Fratti Music Boxes
Canastota, New York
tel.: 1-315-684-9977
http://www.nancyfrattimusicboxes.com/ 


(Message sent Thu 1 Mar 2018, 17:45:53 GMT, from time zone GMT.)

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