To the wedding rehearsal dinner, Caydance brought a handheld slide viewer. One by one, she put images from the music box base into the viewer, held it up to the light, handed it to her Father. In the first slide, against a mountain backdrop -- on skis and ski poles of the unwieldy length of World War II era skiing equipment -- 16 soldiers stood in formation.

"The 10th Mountain Division in training at Camp Hale in the Colorado mountains. Where did you get this?"

“A collector -- Sidonie Frazier -- bought a music box at an exhibition. On the top is a diorama of a castle in high mountains. Beginning with these soldiers on skis, on the base is the series of miniature narrative paintings that you see in these slides. "

The removal of both pitchers in the first inning was not surprising; the first inning score was Toronto 7, Oakland 6. When that wild initial inning ended, the pitchers were Bill Dawley for Oakland and DeWayne Buice for Toronto. "Go on," Mac said.

"Concealed inside the music box, Sido discovered a gold-inlaid medieval manuscript in which -- inset with texts in Latin and French -- scenes of castles people, plants, and wild animals appear. The paintings on the music box, she thinks, might reveal the recent provenance of this manuscript.