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Moving Mountains (The Casket Lottery album)

album by The Casket Lottery

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ16953760 ↗
Source-derived summary

Moving Mountains is the second album by The Casket Lottery. The cover and insert images are from Katsushika Hokusai's woodblock prints from his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Moving Mountains (The Casket Lottery album)” as album by The Casket Lottery. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Moving, Mountains and Casket.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current 29-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Moving, Mountains and Casket providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Moving Mountains (The Casket Lottery album)”, the useful work is to connect “album by The Casket Lottery” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16953760. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Finding collection records
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Moving Mountains (The Casket Lottery album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.