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The music box There are many types or styles of music boxes in today's world, but the most common type is one that holds jewelery. A box that when opened play's a loud, more often than not, favorite classical tune of the person who owns it. It also doubles as an alarm to let the owner know that some one has opened their box. My mother had a music box given to her while she was a young girl and kept her hood treasures in it, as she got older she kept even(in her eyes)more important things in it. When she became a young lady it became her jewelery in it. As a mother, she kept items of the growing in it. It was hidden in her bedroom, and I knew nothing about it. Then came her last , me of course, she had a candy dish that she would put candies in and allow us to have a piece of candy when we were "good". The candy dish was kept on the top of the cupboard. It was hard for me to be good, but I sure had a sweet tooth, so I would sneak a candy every so often. There were so many in there no one would know that I took one. Hah, mom noticed the candy in the dish going down quicker than when she let us have some. Mom brought out this very pretty looking thing and told us this would be her new candy dish, and let us have a candy from it then closed the lid. As we wandered away she wound the music box up and put it on top of the cupboard. No one told me it played this loud music when the lid was opened, so you can imagine my surprise when I climbed up onto the cupboard took down the candy box, opened it and this noise began. Mom came around the corner like a hound after a fox and I was caught with the goods. Believe me, momma had strong hands and I had a sore butt. It was an event that I and the rest of the family would never let me forget. After mom passed away the executor of her will (the oldest ) gave each of us the items mom wanted to pass onto each of us. Along with the other things mom gave to me, I received the music box. I opened it up, the music played and there was a note and a hard candy in it. The note said " My Dearest Dinty. You always tried to get what was in here, and had your ears boxed a few times for it, so now this is all yours. Take this candy and all my love and be good." it was signed just "Mom". My music box held a treasure money can't buy, memories of a mother who loved her . Hope your good memories outweigh your bad ones. Oh yes, it is a Swiss made blue metal music box with a glass dome over a Dutch country side scene on the lid. The tune is Gipsy Baron Treasure Waltz - J Strauss |
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A wonderfully moving story dinty, what wonderful memories it must evoke for you, every time you look at it. Alfie...
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I have a small piano jewelry box my Dad bought for Mom when he was in the Navy and stationed near San Francisco. It plays the Irish song, Wearing of the Green. It doesn't have a lot of space for treasures. There are treasures of Mom's and I have added a few of mine also.
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3/5/2014 11:28 pm |
Your Mom obviously had a good sense of what would mean something to you. How fortunate. Spiritwoman ^i^
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