THE HONOLULU CABINET queen liliuokalani vtg hawaiian guitar music art nouveau

Description: The Kawananakoa's $200M payout portion of the now $5B James Campbell Estate has been settled. It's over. This *$21M piece of furniture is now officially the portion of Queen Liliuokalani's Estate that got thrown away. Liliuokalani's most-prized possession. Tossed in the trash in December of 2006 while the royal estate was being divided up and putting it square in the middle of Broken Trust. Offered here is Queen Liliuokalani's music cabinet. It tells the story of her life. Equivalent to the Resolute Desk. Queen Victoria had a Scotsman craft it for Liliuokalani when Princess Kaiulani passed away in 1899. To avoid overthrow, the two queens had been secretly plotting to seat the young Scottish monarch on the throne at Iolani Palace as "Queen Victoria". Kaiulani was also known as "Hawaii's Last Hope" and "The Peacock Princess". Over the last three Presidencies, the very highest levels of our federal government have repeatedly tried to purchase this artifact and return it to Hawaii. To be clear: Her music cabinet is FREE to the people of Hawaii. Hawaii's leaders refuse to accept the gift. Embarrassed, to the point of wanting this artifact destroyed, Hawaii's leading authorities refuse to acknowledge Liliuokalani's handwriting, or that the cabinet's door is displaying the last line & summation of **Aloha 'Oe and that the backboard is very specifically referencing a musically gifted, female monarch from a tiny island kingdom who was robbed of her throne and imprisoned in the tower of a royal palace (Lady Mortimer/Catrin Owain Glyndŵr, d.1413). On top of all of this, Liliuokalani was a Shakespearean scholar. She quoted Shakespeare often, in her speeches and even in her book "Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen" in 1898, just one year before the commission of this cabinet. Since Hawaii is refusing to accept the government's offer to purchase it, maybe Washington D.C. or the United Kingdom should bypass Hawaii altogether and just put it in the Smithsonian or the Victoria & Albert? ~~~~~January 2024 update: After a recent DNA match, turns out, like Catrin Owain Glyndŵr (d.1413), I'm a direct descendent (the 12x grandson) of another figure from Shakespeare's HENRY IV. Sir Walter Blount (d.1403). A remarkable coincidence! *Furniture can be Art. Google "World's most expensive furniture" to learn more. And when coupled with being a custom-designed monarchy piece that marks an event that has forever changed the course of human history, the price goes through the roof. The last monarchy piece that went up for sale (also a cabinet) sold for $36M. **Composed on guitar in 1878, the last line of Aloha 'Oe (bird admiring a rose blossom: queen delighting to the beauty of her people) is the most famous sentence Lili'uokalani ever wrote. NOTE: There's little doubt that this was Liliuokalani's most-prized possession. It needs a Wikipedia page. If it had a Wikipedia page, we could present all the research and get everyone on record: the Hawaiian leadership that threw it away and want it destroyed, and those that are horrified by their actions and want to preserve it for future generations. Let us know if you can create a Wikipedia page for it. Because we have it for sale, we are not allowed to create a Wikipedia page. ~~~~~ We've created several products designed around her cabinet. Our portable guitar & public speaking amplifiers, kitchen backsplash & shower tiles and coffee mugs have all been big hits (Our coffee mugs re-sell for up to a $150.00 each!) But, because Aloha 'Oe means "Farewell to thee: Until we meet again", our biggest seller has been our colorful Celebration of Life cremation urns. We offer a nice selection of cremation urns and are constantly creating new models. Be sure to check-out our other listings to get a glimpse of what we currently have to offer.

Price: 21000000 USD

Location: Tracyton, Washington

End Time: 2024-10-12T15:30:05.000Z

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