Regina established a nationwide distribution network by offering a 50% wholesale price to department stores and other retailers. Serial Numbers - of surviving instruments at the time of going to press - can you add. Item number: 435, 18-1/2' NEW CENTURY 4 COMB DISC MUSIC BOX. In a few years, Regina was manufacturing their products entirely in America, as Brachhausen accumulated patents. After a year of immediate success, Brachhausen purchased a 25,000-square foot building at 54 Cherry Street in. Gradually, the movements were imported and assembled into American-made boxes. Initially, Regina imported their boxes from Polyphon, selling 11 and 15.5-inch models. After sailing to America in September 1892, he leased some space in, and with financing from Knauth, Nachod & Kuhne in Leipzig, Brachhausen set up shop in partnership with Riessner and Johannas J.
Three years later, at the age of 35, Brachhausen expanded his enterprise to America by establishing the Regina Music Box Company.
