Sold Date: May 31, 2021
Start Date: May 24, 2021
Final Price: $110.00 (USD)
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In good working condition Soviet music box Sputnik
Original
Made in the 1960s in the USSR


The music box works perfectly
Turn the base clockwise to play
Large and impressive music box
For collectors of space and music boxes
Made of bakelite (plastic), brass, aluminum, steel, lucite, wood
Total height: 150mm
Total length including satellite: 235mm
Base of the Globe music box: 120 mm

Globe music box base height: 50 mm When wound up, the music box plays the tune, "Wide is my Motherland" (Широка страна моя родная)
The tune is intermittently interrupted by a series of beeps that represent the ones transmitted by Sputnik.

An inscription on the base translates to ‘Made in the USSR’. Produced in the 1960s, this music box highlights the impact Sputnik had on world events, with items such as this one becoming highly collectible for space enthusiasts. The spacecraft named Sputnik after the Russian word” Sputnik", was launched on October 4, 1957 at 10: 29 Moscow time from the Tyuratam cosmodrome in the Kazakh Republic. The satellite was 22 inches in diameter, about the size of a beach ball, weighed 184 pounds, and circled Earth once every hour and 36 minutes. Moving at 18,000 miles per hour, its elliptical orbit had an apogee (farthest point from Earth) of 584 miles and a perigee (closest point) of 143 miles.


Visible through binoculars before sunrise or after sunset, the Satellite transmitted radio signals to Earth that were strong enough to be picked up by amateur radio operators.