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For the music box and antique collector who enjoys wooden keepsake boxes, children's jewelry boxes, wooden music boxes, ballerina music boxes, and music trinket boxes, disc movements also make valuable collectibles. The following are twelve interesting models of disc music boxes that collectors can choose from.
Adler Disc Music Box
This music box was made by Julius H Zimmerman. It comes with a standard mechanism and a double-disc machine. Disc sizes range from 71/4 to 26 inches. The trademark of this disc music box is an eagle in flight before sunrise.
Baskanion Disc Box
This box was made by Paul Ehrlich and Company of the Fabrik Leipziger Musikwerke , Leipzig, Germany in the 1800?s. It is a card-style disc music box with a disc size of 11 ¼ inches.
Britannia
The Britannia disc box ranges in sizes from 5 inches to 25 inches. Made by B.H. Abrahams, this box has a clear tone and was made in both upright and horizontal models. The trademark is a lion with a globe inside a sunburst.
Capital
The Capital Cuff Box disc box was made by F.G. Otto. While it t is not a true disc music box, it still is unique due to its mechanism that had a distinguished conical metal sleeve, which looked like a dress cuff. The sleeve could be turned like a cylinder music box. The cuffs range in sizes from 4 i/2 inches to 7 3//4 inches.
Celesta Disc Music Box
These disc boxes were particularly noted for their colorfully decorated discs ranging in sizes from 8 ½ inches to 19 5/8 inches. They were also made in upright and horizontal models. The trademark for this disc music box was a scroll on a bed of flowers on the discs.
Criterion
Made by F.G. Otto, these disc boxes were similar to the interchangeable disc box. Their disc sizes ranged from 11 ½ inches to 20 ½ inches.
Edelweiss
This disc music box has a beautiful, clear tone. All of them were made to be table-top models. The disc ranges from 12 inches to 22 ¼ inches. This box was made by Hermann Thoerns and was also offered under the name Helvetia.
Empress
The Empress is a disc box that was made by Mermod Freres and was the exact same at the Mira box.
Eroica
This is a multiple-disc music box that was made with in a two to three part disc playing system. The discs all play simultaneously.
Euphonia
The Euphonia was made by F.G. Otto. It really is a later version of the Criterion.
Euphonion
The disc sizes for this disc music box range from 11 inces to 19 5/8 inches. It was sold by Euphonion Musikwerke.
Euterpephon
This disc music box was made by A.W. Neumann. The trademark for it is a lyre with a banner inscripted with "Euterpephon" in the center-drive discs.
For the music box and antique collector, there is a wide variety of specialized disc music boxes to choose from. Don't you think it is time to add to your collection of wooden keepsake boxes, children?s jewelry boxes, wooden music boxes, ballerina music boxes, and music trinket boxes
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The Tarot Through The Ages
The origins of the Tarot are surrounded with myth and lore. It is hard to know for sure what the facts are. The Tarot has been thought to come from places like India, Egypt, China and Morocco. Others say the Tarot was brought to us from the Sufis or the Jewish Cabbalists. Still others contend that the origin of the tarot was from Moses. In the library of Alexandria, in Egypt, there were scrolls that were based on the Book of Thoth, an ancient book that came from Egypt's mystery schools. One theory is that the illustrations on the Tarot cards are secret teachings of the Book of Thoth hidden in the innocent pictures.
It seems that wherever there was a secret 'word of mouth' tradition handed down from teacher to pupil, it was hailed as the origin or beginning of Tarot. A large group believed it was the Gypsies who brought the tarot to Europe, the word gypsy being a corrupted version of Egyptian. That is highly unlikely, since evidence points to gypsies not using Tarot until the 20th century. Before that, palmistry was their preferred method of fortune telling.
The Historical Evidence Behind the Origins of the Tarot
It seems the only evidence there is to the origins of the Tarot can be found in the cards that were made in Italy, around 1420. The symbolism of the trumps can be found in the European art of the time, with some drawings being exactly the likeness of those found on Tarot cards.
History tells us that a scholar named Marziano da Torona, who was secretary to the Duke of Milan, may have invented the Tarot deck. Marziano was a scholar and an expert astrologer. The young duke, Filippo Maria Visconti instructed Marziano to create a game, using a deck that would replace the common suits of swords, coins, staves and cups. The duke wanted the new deck to have cards that represented virtues, riches, pleasures and purities. Marziano went on to create the card deck that Visconti wanted. He wrote a companion book to go with the deck of cards. It is on display in the Paris National library. In the book, there are no divine meanings to the cards, but no real rules for a card game, either. The book focuses on the symbolic meaning of the pictures and the different ranks of the depicted characters. Michelino da Besozzo is the Italian artist credited with painting the cards.
Is it plausible that the origins of the Tarot as the curious card game invented by Marziano da Torona? If so, why doesn't the book that accompanied the deck refer to the divination of the cards?
The Mystery Continues About The Origins of the Tarot
Where did the word Tarot come from? It has been called a Hebrew, Latin or Egyptian word. Is the word Tarot really an anagram, which when solved explains the mystery of the cards? Once again, the historical evidence of the origins of the word points to where the cards first appeared - in Italy. The cards were called Carte da trionfi, which is Italian for "cards of the triumphs". Later, a new card game was introduced, called Trumps or Triumphs. As it was played with different cards, the original Carte da trionfi became tarocco. In French they were called tarot.
What are these cards that are shrouded in mysterious beginnings used for? Are they good or evil? The Tarot is basically a set of symbols, which are printed on a pack of 78 cards. Regular playing cards have hearts, clubs, spades and diamonds as suits. Tarot cards have different suits, with meanings. The Wands (also known as staves or rods) point to creativity and energy. There are the Cups (or vessels), relating to emotions and friends; Swords cover the area of challenge and thought; the Pentacles (coins or disks) relate to money and security. The cards are placed in a particular pattern. A Tarot reader uses the cards as an oracle that can answer questions from the past, present or future.
The philosophy behind the Tarot is that the future is subject to change. If you are given enough notice, you can avoid the event you are being warned about. The Tarot makes you think, make you take steps that you might not have considered. When you ask a question of the Tarot that relates to the future, you'll be shown what will happen if you don't change anything. Many consider the Tarot cards as more of a counselling guide than a divining tool. Tarot readings can provide flashes of inspiration where otherwise the problems the person may be facing may seem insurmountable.
Do the cards that are used today, all over the world come from the deck Marziano da Torona created in the 1400's? Is the reason the origins of the Tarot are so shrouded in mystery owing to Anima Mundi? The Anima Mundi or soul of the world is seen as the vital force that presides over the growth and continuity of all living things. Like a Universal library, it contains the entire human races' memories and wisdom from the past, present and future. It can be summoned with deep thought. Imagine all the basic figures one could find in all religions, myths, legends and folklore. When combined, this wealth of knowledge is a powerhouse. To understand this more one can look at the Empress card of the Tarot. The very essence of femininity is represented in the Empress - she is the great mother Goddess of the world. She represents 'the eternal feminine', in myth and psychology. Does working with the images of the Tarot somehow allow our unconscious to connect with that human collectiveness? Does the Tarot become a porthole to the storehouse of answers to any question any of us has ever had? Perhaps it is because of the mystical Anima Mundi that we can't pinpoint the origin of the Tarot with certainty.
We may never really know the true history or the origins of the Tarot. Nevertheless, we continue to be attracted to the Tarot's wisdom, symbols and story.
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