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Welsh Dragon

This work is placed here to let you see what can be achieved through the combined desires of dedication and wishing to succeed.

This is a musical box that I designed and carved for His Royal Highness The Prince Of Wales. I delivered it by invitation to Buckingham Palace on 3 March 1969.

It was created to support with kindness His Royal Highness, during a very difficult period before His investiture as Prince Of Wales at Caernarfon Castle on the 1 July 1969.

Earlier on the 5 November 1968, I turned down mass-production of the work. It was at the Design Centre, Haymarket, London, where it was held for six weeks.
One of Britain’s leading potteries wanted to mass-produce the musical box to export to the USA as investiture souvenirs. You can see that this would have made me a very wealthy man, but I said, “No,” because I wanted to support His Royal Highness, even though at this point of time only one person in the royal household knew of its existence.

I was offered the chance of entering the competition to find the best investiture souvenir of 1969. When I opened the entry form I noticed that the competition had closed and when I pointed this out, I was told it would be reopened.

I think you will agree that they would not open it for a loser, so I would have won this competition.The competition was open to all art colleges and manufacturers throughout the United Kingdom. I would have beaten them all, considering that I am self taught without any instruction whatsoever.
The musical box stood 14.5” high and was carved in wood. It was my first carving.

I have been authorized to show the picture of the musical box on this site.

The Welsh Dragon was in a seated position representing peace. It held a heart in its claws on which I had carved the profile head of HRH The Prince Of Wales.
The head was surrounded in laurel and topped with the investiture coronet.

The dragon was seated on highly polished ebony base in which there was a medallion drawer, lined in green velvet the national colour of Wales. A carved Daffodil (Wales’s national flower) formed the handle. When the drawer was opened a musical movement played “The Land Of My Fathers” the Welsh National Anthem.

All carved parts were covered in 24ct gold-leaf.

I have been authorized to show the work here.