Boblo band organ sells at auction for more than $1 million

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Posted Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:55 AM | Contributed by Jeff

The 1913 mechanical organ that serenaded dancers at the Boblo Island Amusement Park in the early decades of the 20th Century sold at auction for just over a million dollars on Saturday in Boca Raton, Fla. The final price fell considerably short of the instrument's presale estimate of $1.5 million to $2.5 million.

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