> I'm a Band Organ kind of guy and no little about music boxes.  My
> daughter-in-law's grandfather died recently and left her a small
> Thorens music box.  It plays disks that are aproximately 4.5 inches in
> diameter.  The case is walnut aprox 7x6x3". My guess is (based on the
> ink on the factory cardboard container) that it was made in the mid to
> late 50's.
>
> Two questions...
>
>    Can she find more disks somewhere (she has six now)...  and
>
>    Does this thing have any economic value?

Hello Bill,

"Reuge" in Switzerland is still producing that model.

I have a Reuge movement and some Thorens disks; they run.  In May I was
in Sarasota (Florida) and bought a Thorens- disk in the shop of the
museum "Cars and Music of Yesterday" in Sarasota. That museum belongs
to a Mister Bellm.  I do not know exactly, but I think, I have paid 15
US$ for that disk. May be you will get it for less money from a MMD- or
MBSI-member. For the last Thorens-disk, I bought in Germany, I have
paid 7 US$.

I do not know the US-market; so I can't say anything about the value of
that music box. May be a few 100 US$; it depends of the condition of
the box and the movement.

Hauke