Organette in wooden case on socle with four supports, finished with black varnish, decorated with the painted floral pattern with thin golden branches and leaves, flowers with red and blue petals, light stripes and frames.

The mechanism is activated by rotating the handle on the case rear side, air is pumped into the bellows, when the folded cardboard music book  moves, the levers rise and descend following the location of the holes in the cardboard book, open air access to the reeds, making them sound in the right order, and the melody sounds.
The folded cardboard book-music is in the set.

The perforated book-music encodes The melody of the musical piece” “CIRCUS RENZ GALOP”, published in 1894 under the authentic title "Souvenir de Cirque Renz", by the Austrian composer Gustav Peter (1833-1919, both dates are tentative).

Circus Renz was a German circus company founded by Ernst Jakob Renz (1815-1892), in 1842, as Circus Olympic, and existed until 1897. The company had several fixed-site buildings in Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Breslau and Vienna. Today, several circus companies in Germany use the surname Renz.

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