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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 2164519, member: 111&quot;]Not really sure what to say here - have given numerous examples of really serious anomalies on a really odd item, and personally, have no doubt that there is a good deal of fakery present, but have absolutely no idea what genuine piece might have been faked.&nbsp; It just appears to be someone&#039;s fantasy creation, assembled from all sorts of bits and pieces, with some added marks that just do not belong together.&nbsp; The point of making a fake Imperial Russian period silver item, that is also Judaica, is quite simply to fool someone into paying a high price - both were/are widely faked, some much more convincingly than this.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Since you haven&#039;t identified the song, I haven&#039;t addressed the issue of the music box mechanism, because having seen so many supposedly &#039;Victorian&#039; or &#039;antique&#039; music boxes that played modern tunes, just knowing the song might have suggested an age (not that mechanisms aren&#039;t replaced) - can only say that while it looks to have some age and be of decent quality, have serious doubts that it&#039;s of an age or quality to have been placed in an 1894 object made by a Russian firm awarded an Imperial Warrant.&nbsp; That stretched out spring attached to the stop-lever is an indicator that it should have a push/pull or slide operating button on the outside of the piece, but you haven&#039;t shown one, suggesting that the mechanism is just one more salvaged bit.&nbsp; The bracket for the winding key is also not anything I can recall seeing before, and while the key appears to have age, suspect it&#039;s not original to the mechanism (may have been a clock key).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps you might share with us where you are located, as well as where and when the item was acquired?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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