QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ROYAL HAWAIIAN GUITAR MUSIC CABINET Start Price USD 8,500,000.00 Current Price USD 8,500,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, October 02, 2008 End Time Sunday, October 12, 2008 Location HONOLULU, HI See more about 'QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ROYAL HAWAIIAN GUITAR MUSIC CABINET' Description We just watched the 2006 Academy Award winning movie, THE QUEEN, starring Helen Mirren. By odd coincidence the movie also opens with a quote from Shakespeare's HENRY IV. The Queen's music cabinet had not yet been discovered!     FOR SALE: and now blossoming into the most important discovery in all of Hawaiian history: secretly hidden-away for more than a century and apparently just a few steps away from the Palace doors,   THE QUEEN LILI'UOKALANI'S  MUSIC CONSOLE.     The cabinets artwork is a summation of Aloha 'Oe (1878) and displays Her Majesty's, "bird delighting to the beauty of the Maunawili rose blossom".       Authorities Abroad consider Her console to be among the finest works ever to emerge from The English Arts & Crafts Movement of 1880-1910. Commissioned under an English-Scottish Royal Warrant by Queen Victoria and/or King Kalakaua, it is a previously unknown bold-banner document that puts its full support behind Lili'uokalani, as Queen. It is not vague.   Circa. 1888, the Sovereign's music cabinet pre-dates the House of Windsor, falling under the Royal Houses of Hanover and Kalakaua. Likely commissioned as a Gift of Succession or as a Gift of Ascension. And, it appears to be rewriting history: prior to this discovery it was believed Victoria (d. 1901) had turned Her back on Lili'uokalani (d. 1917).  Logic dictates, and the research suggests, because of its ties to Buckingham Palace and because it bears the name of King Henry, it was hidden-away by The Overthrowers even before Blount arrived (1893). Adding to the cabinet's importance and supporting that it was Victoria Herself who commissioned it, is Its apparent century-long use (all this time in the hands of The Overthrowers?) as a covetous barroom "victory trophy", explaining its pristine condition and the 115 years of "good ol' boy" cult-like secrecy that seemingly surrounds it (there has been more than one attempt by local authorities to sweep the discovery of this royal artifact under the rug. Why? What great secret does it hold?). ~~~~~ The Queen was an incredibly gifted musician and a prolific songwriter. She composed many of Her nearly 200 melodies on and for guitar. Aloha 'Oe (composed on guitar) is still the most famous song ever written in the Hawaiian language.     Place a Bid!