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What Goes
Around…
Seiffener
Tradition
Germany
This six-sided
music box ornated with nativity figures, the little musician-angels in
particular, is part of the classical Christmas tradition of German
culture. It was purchased in Germany probably in the early 1950s by
Colonel Wilbur Showalter and his wife Lucile. Dating back to the end
of the eighteenth
century, today’s music boxes recapture memories of an earlier era. At the time,
music boxes enabled families to dance and enjoy popular music in the privacy of
their homes. They were also an early and simplified version of mechanical
crèches. Today nativity music boxes are a reminder of “what goes around, comes
around,” the annual remembrance of Christ’s birth. |