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Addams Family Values Knight's Helmet Music Box Decanter & Shot Glass Cabinet Prop

Currency:USD Category:Memorabilia / Movie - Memorabilia Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 300.00 USD
Addams Family Values Knight's Helmet Music Box Decanter & Shot Glass Cabinet Prop
Addams Family Values Knight's Helmet Music Box Decanter & Shot Glass Cabinet Prop - The hysterical "Addams Family Values" (1993), which was the box office smash sequel to the "Addams Family" big screen adaption of the classic TV Series was a "Jack-In-The-Box" of surprises that continued to jump right off the screen. Especially brilliant was Christopher Lloyd as the totally love-struck Uncle Fester, and his black widow murderous wife Debbie (played, as she always does, with prefect timing by Joan Cusack). This background prop from the Addams mansion is a great case in point. Closed, it looks like a 14th Century Jousting Knight's helmet, however when you open it up, it exposes a bright red inner dome lid and a base holding a luxurious faux-gold and crystal liquor decanter and four shot glass slots (three of the original shot glasses are included). But the surprises don't' stop there. When you pick up the decanter you discover it's also a music box, playing... what else... but Irving Berlin's 1919 classic "The Near Future", better known for its opening lyric "How Dry I Am". The song was original, ironically, an anthem for abstinence from alcohol in support of Prohibition, but of course soon took on the opposite theme of a celebration of being inebriated by the "evil liquid", and of course was used for generations in movies, cartoons, shorts and skits to denote drunkenness, usually with great pleasure! The music box works, and needs to be wound up by a supplied key on the bottom of the helmet. A "trigger" is under the decanter. (Helmet closed is approx 8"x11"x12", decanter is approx 4"x6", and the shot glasses are approx 2.5").