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REUGE - Height x diameter: 30 x 17 cm. Metal cage and casing containing two small dancing parrots with colorful plumage. The feathers are authentic, repainted, and the birds are attached to the bases with a brass stand and assembled to the mechanism hidden by a blue velvet-covered top. Underneath is the crank that winds the mechanism and the button that starts the music box.  Trademark of the brand “Reuge Musik, ” Sainte Croix, made in Switzerland.  Literature: Au Pays, Des Boites À Musique Et Des Automates , Les Editions du Cochet, CH 1450 Sainte-Croix. 1ère édition, 1989. The technique was acquired by Reuge from the Bontems company in Paris and the German company Eschle in the 1960s.