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Zimbalist Musical Box
By Matthew Caulfield

If you go to the MMD archives you will find several informative
messages about Zimbalist music boxes:

        http://mmd.foxtail.com/Archives/KWIC/Z/zimbalist.html 

These boxes seem to fetch a fancy price, in the thousand dollar range.
This is certainly not because of the mundane Thorens movements in them,
but solely because of their silver casework.  The boxes were designed
by Fred Zimbalist, a cousin of Ephraim Zimbalist, and were apparently
executed in India.

This web site, about a Zimbalist family squabble, gives you the
Fred-Ephraim connection, and it indicates that as of 1998 Fred was
alive and in a nursing home, suffering from Alzheimer's disease:

  http://www.sunnews.com/news/1998/1203/ezimbalist.htm 

It looks like the Fred Zimbalist Music Box Company is still in business
though.  This Cleveland phone number for the company was cached by
Google in 2005: 216-621-6566.

I'd say that, at $16 for a Zimbalist creation, you got a bargain!

Matthew Caulfield
Irondequoit, New York


(Message sent Sun 24 Jul 2005, 13:47:53 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

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