Josette's music box

Josette's music box is a fictional item featured in the 1966-1971 daytime Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, which aired on ABC. The item is an ornately carved antique music box given to French noblewoman Josette du Prs by her lover Barnabas Collins as a gift. Following Josette's death in 1796, the music box was relocated to her original bedroom at the Old House at Collinwood until it was discovered again by Barnabas centuries later in the year 1967. Barnabas, now a vampire, gave the music box to coffee shop waitress Maggie Evans, whom he convinced was actually the reincarnation of his beloved Josette. When Barnabas' long-term plans to make Maggie his new vampire bride failed, he then turned his affection to governess Victoria Winters and gave the music box to her as well. In 1968, Victoria Winters was spirited back into the past, but her spirit left behind a note inside the music box - a plea for help, which Barnabas ultimately answered by traveling backwards in time himself in an effort to save her from execution.