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Offline Melpaget

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Old handwriting on a jewellery box
« on: Sunday 03 June 18 22:38 BST (UK) »
Hi everyone I've got an old jewellery box and am unable to decipher the words written on the bottom of it ??? I have enclosed 2 pics one original and one edited please help someone.I've just found out top line is a song They are 2 songs written on the bottom.
First song is  “O yeel May the keel row” now need bottom song

Just can’t work out second line

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Re: Old handwriting on a jewellery box
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 03 June 18 23:25 BST (UK) »
 God may the Heel
--in the Helecopt------which of course is all utter rubbish so it can`t be   that.

Any idea who owned it or any circumstances?
What a fascinating mystery.
Hope someone with better eyesight than me can make it out.
I`m very curious now. Viktoria.

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Re: Old handwriting on a jewellery box
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 03 June 18 23:46 BST (UK) »
.........Vale of Eden

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Maybe Mile of Eden, it looks like a dot over an i
And  Word on the second line might be “their”

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Re: Old handwriting on a jewellery box
« Reply #3 on: Monday 04 June 18 00:17 BST (UK) »
My first thought was that the top line might be from the song O weel may the Keel Row.

It looks like a musical box, needing a key to wind it up?

ADDED - I see you added to your post while I was thinking about it  :)


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Re: Old handwriting on a jewellery box
« Reply #4 on: Monday 04 June 18 00:21 BST (UK) »
Twas within a Mile of Edinburgh

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Re: Old handwriting on a jewellery box
« Reply #5 on: Monday 04 June 18 00:26 BST (UK) »
That's it thank you Bookbox and yes does need a key

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Re: Old handwriting on a jewellery box
« Reply #6 on: Monday 04 June 18 10:27 BST (UK) »
Could the first line be....Yet may the Keel now.....
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Re: Old handwriting on a jewellery box
« Reply #7 on: Monday 04 June 18 11:09 BST (UK) »
Bookbox mentions Edinburgh. There was an earlier version of The Keel Row refering to The Canongate in Edinburgh-

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Versions of the song appear in both England and Scotland, with Scottish versions referring to the Canongate rather than Sandgate, the earliest printing was in the 1770s in Edinburgh in A Collection of Favourite Scots Tunes, edited by Charles Maclean, though the tune was also found in several late eighteenth-century English manuscript collections

https://wikivividly.com/wiki/Keel_Row

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Re: Old handwriting on a jewellery box
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 06 June 18 19:36 BST (UK) »
Is this an old cylinder music box that might perhaps have those two tunes on it:
"Oh weel may the keel row" and "Twas within a mile of Edinburgh"

Do you have the key and does it work - if so I would find an app that recognised tunes (I'm reliably informed there is such a thing!) and see if thats the case.

Intrigued  :o
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