6/51 Petites Musique in Mini Cartel style box Circa 1880
This movement is known as a Petite Musique, being a larger movement, but of a similar mechanical design to a Snuff Box or Tabatiére.
The box is a tiny version of a Cartel box.
It arrived in a sorry state, with no cylinder drive peg and no snail cam register peg. My local friend made new ones for me plus a new male Geneva Stop works part.
The box needed some attention too. There was a corner of veneer missing from the top, which was easy to match and repair,
Then just a repolish.
The box is a tiny version of a Cartel box.
It arrived in a sorry state, with no cylinder drive peg and no snail cam register peg. My local friend made new ones for me plus a new male Geneva Stop works part.
The box needed some attention too. There was a corner of veneer missing from the top, which was easy to match and repair,
Then just a repolish.
The Tunes
Tunesheet, now enhanced by Gemini, deciphered as:
1. The Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore (pre 1852)
2. Those Evening Bells by Thomas Moore (pre 1852)
3. Goodbye Sweetheart by John Liptrot Hatton (early 1860's)
4. Boccaccio Waltz by Franz von Suppé (c 1879)
5. Ye Banks & Braes By Robbie Burns (1791). "The Banks O' Doon" is a Scots song written by Robert Burns in 1791, sometimes known as "Ye Banks and Braes" (after the opening line of the third version). Burns set the lyrics to an air called The Caledonian Hunt's Delight. Its melodic schema was also used for Phule Phule Dhole Dhole, a song by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore,
The song was inspired by the story of Margaret (Peggy) Kennedy (1766—95), who was seduced and then abandoned by Andrew McDouall, the son of a wealthy family and sometime Member of Parliament for Wigtonshire. Kennedy sued for a declarator of marriage, but died prior to adjudication of the case. Although the Consistorial court found the marriage claim valid, the Court of Session decided the marriage claim failed, but found McDouall to be the father of Kennedy's daughter and ordered that he pay £3,000 to Kennedy's estate and provide for the child. (Burns wrote a second poem about Peggy, whom he had met when she was 18 - Young Peggy Blooms.)
The song uses the same tune as the East Anglian variant of the English Folk song "Foggy Dew".
6. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1864) A US Civil War favourite with words by George F Foot. It was known as The Prisoner's Hope. It's also the base tune for the famous "Do You Hear the People Sing" from Les Miserables
As the latest tune is 1879, this box is likely to have been made around 1880
Grateful thanks to Paul Bellamy for his help with the above.
1. The Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore (pre 1852)
2. Those Evening Bells by Thomas Moore (pre 1852)
3. Goodbye Sweetheart by John Liptrot Hatton (early 1860's)
4. Boccaccio Waltz by Franz von Suppé (c 1879)
5. Ye Banks & Braes By Robbie Burns (1791). "The Banks O' Doon" is a Scots song written by Robert Burns in 1791, sometimes known as "Ye Banks and Braes" (after the opening line of the third version). Burns set the lyrics to an air called The Caledonian Hunt's Delight. Its melodic schema was also used for Phule Phule Dhole Dhole, a song by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore,
The song was inspired by the story of Margaret (Peggy) Kennedy (1766—95), who was seduced and then abandoned by Andrew McDouall, the son of a wealthy family and sometime Member of Parliament for Wigtonshire. Kennedy sued for a declarator of marriage, but died prior to adjudication of the case. Although the Consistorial court found the marriage claim valid, the Court of Session decided the marriage claim failed, but found McDouall to be the father of Kennedy's daughter and ordered that he pay £3,000 to Kennedy's estate and provide for the child. (Burns wrote a second poem about Peggy, whom he had met when she was 18 - Young Peggy Blooms.)
The song uses the same tune as the East Anglian variant of the English Folk song "Foggy Dew".
6. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1864) A US Civil War favourite with words by George F Foot. It was known as The Prisoner's Hope. It's also the base tune for the famous "Do You Hear the People Sing" from Les Miserables
As the latest tune is 1879, this box is likely to have been made around 1880
Grateful thanks to Paul Bellamy for his help with the above.