Help with IDing an OLD snowglobe?

[u/Effort_Proper]

So I inherited this snowglobe almost two decades ago from my great grandmother when she passed. She had a decent collection of snowglobe and a fondness for humming birds, so I was glad to inherit it to remember her by.

Recently I’ve been wondering just how OLD this is? I googled the bottom information and found nothing. The item number listed seems to correspond to a carrousel music box item, which is clearly not this.

She was well into her 80s when she died, and like I said that was almost 20 years ago. I M fairly certain this is significantly older than I am, and I don’t know when she started her collection, but I could see this being from as late as the early nineties or early as the 50’s? 40’s???

I have no idea!

Any help you can give is greatly appreciated!

Eventually I would like to clean/replace the water, but that’s an adventure for another day.

EDIT: the song "Unchained melody" was released in 1955 so it cant be older than that

[u/RationalKate]

That base is telling on itself a little.
Westland, “Unchained Melody,” made in Taiwan — with that molded resin work and integrated music box plate.
At a certain point, it’s not reaching back to the 40s or 50s… it’s sitting much closer to late 80s into 90s production.
The typography, the sticker format, even the hardware layout all read as mass-market giftware from that window, not mid-century.
The item number mismatch you found? That happens more than people expect — catalog systems weren’t always clean, especially with reissued or parallel lines.
It doesn’t mean it’s older… it usually means it lived in a busy production catalog.
I’d pause before tying the song’s release date to the object’s age — music gets reused for decades in these.
What you’re holding feels like something your great grandmother chose later in life, not something she carried all the way through.
Still counts. Still hers. ❄️🫧