Hi!

Thanks for your response to my 'packing music boxes' blurb.

That was a quick 'off the cuff' article and I did definitely leave out
some 'other stuff'.   I'm going to expand that article and put it in an
issue of the  MBSI (Musical Box Society Int'l.) publication...as soon
as I have time!

The additional information in the article will definitely include the
warning about temperature differences!

I have a personal happening with temperature differences back in the
early '80s.....it was February, 14 degrees outside, and I was escorting
a lovely interchangeable box  with table to a mid-southern state.   I
packed it for flight, bought myself a ticket too, and marked the carton
'Scientific Instrument...do not freeze".   Well, when I reached my
destination,

SURPRISE!, the carton didn't make the same plane I did!   My customer
and I waited 3 hours in the terminal, and greeted the next
plane...hoping that it was on that flight.  It was.   We did NOT open
it for about an hour after we arrived at his house (temperature was
about 65-70 degrees outside).   When we did open it, the frigid air
came out in a rush.  We took the music box & table out of the carton,
unwrapped it and the  lacquer finish, which was about 1 year old, was
crazed unbelieveably!!!

Did the crazing happen between my house and Chicago (where we changed
planes)...from being left out in the open air in Chicago?....from being
in the warmer climate of the customer's house????.  Don't know, but it
made me leery of shipping newer refinished boxes in the wintertime,
without warning the customer of the potential dangers!

Thanks again for the input...

Nancy Fratti¶
MusicBoxLady@Juno.Com