I was having a very strange dream this morning, it had one recurring theme, finding great antique treasures, but the rest of it except the part about reselling things was totally alien. I was given access to an old house, that was all falling down, and it was stuffed with all kinds of great old junk and a few rare treasures. The items that I was drawn to were two very antique highly decorated six shooter pistols.
after some rigmarole and bargaining I was given them to resell in an auction situation.
I took them to my shop and started to clean the dirt and cobwebs off when I realized that they were not really pistols, but hollow castings of pistols. (now this is absurd, because I have a good bit of knowledge about vintage firearms, and would have spotted this immediately, but you know how dreams are). I inspected them further to find that they had little hidden doors in rounded bottom of the grip, after a moment I got them to open, ashes fell out. Not just ashes but funeral ashes, this was some body's ashes!
Somehow the scene shifts to an auction house, and these collectors are all over me about these two pistol castings both containing ashes of some important people ,(who's names escaped me soon after waking).
It seems that these were famous pieces and were worth a huge amount of money. But, only if the ashes were left inside of them, otherwise they were not so valuable.
I suddenly got really upset about this, and my words are what woke me up this morning," I have no problem selling these guns, or even actual guns as long as they are works of art, but I refuse to sell you human remains!"
I can't make any sense of this at all, I do buy and sell art, I like decorated firearms, swords and all kinds of warlike things, fancy armor, battle axes, daggers, what have you. But I've never sold any and and have only bought a few for my collecting. I have never attended an auction, though I'd love to go see one at Christie's or someplace like it. And why would anyone put someones ashes in a hollow casting of a six gun?
I wonder what I'll dream of next.
after some rigmarole and bargaining I was given them to resell in an auction situation.
I took them to my shop and started to clean the dirt and cobwebs off when I realized that they were not really pistols, but hollow castings of pistols. (now this is absurd, because I have a good bit of knowledge about vintage firearms, and would have spotted this immediately, but you know how dreams are). I inspected them further to find that they had little hidden doors in rounded bottom of the grip, after a moment I got them to open, ashes fell out. Not just ashes but funeral ashes, this was some body's ashes!
Somehow the scene shifts to an auction house, and these collectors are all over me about these two pistol castings both containing ashes of some important people ,(who's names escaped me soon after waking).
It seems that these were famous pieces and were worth a huge amount of money. But, only if the ashes were left inside of them, otherwise they were not so valuable.
I suddenly got really upset about this, and my words are what woke me up this morning," I have no problem selling these guns, or even actual guns as long as they are works of art, but I refuse to sell you human remains!"
I can't make any sense of this at all, I do buy and sell art, I like decorated firearms, swords and all kinds of warlike things, fancy armor, battle axes, daggers, what have you. But I've never sold any and and have only bought a few for my collecting. I have never attended an auction, though I'd love to go see one at Christie's or someplace like it. And why would anyone put someones ashes in a hollow casting of a six gun?
I wonder what I'll dream of next.