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Yet another absence from the forums due to moving (sorry to those asking about the dragons I posted for sale a little while ago. I’ll get back to you!).
But. I’m in desperate need of an unpainted PYO wolf. It’s for my friend’s birthday, and I plan to paint the little guy up as more fox looking than wolf. There’s no sculptures for sale through the site though, and I’m sort of stumped. I don’t suppose anyone has one they’d sell me? Or. I have a silver kinglet I would trade for one of them. ><
My surgery went alright, but I’ve run into a new issue with the new apartment I’ve moved into. Space! Too many dragons and not enough space. x.x I’ve passed a lot of my own collection to friends to make extra room for Maggie’s dragons, but I still have a couple extra pieces that need to go to good homes. The Silver Kinglet I had has found a home, but my Peacock Oriental is still lonesome. ><
I purchased him from Ebay. I don’t have a working camera still, but I do have the image from the Ebay auction I got him from. I’d like 160.00 for him with another 15.00 for shipping. I will ensure him and everything of course, and I’ll be sure to ship him secure.
It’s the darker version of the peacock. He’s gorgeous, and flawless.
Thanks to everyone for looking =)
Aethie’s lucky fiance did have some luck, but I consider it very bad luck and not what I wanted to hear.
Aeth and I ended up going back to the shop together to talk to the shopkeeper. She was very surprised to see Aethie again I think and she definitely didn’t know what to think of me. Aeth had brought the quilt along with us and offered it to her. We both apologized to her for being persistant, but we really just wanted to know what happened to the windstones’ owner.
That was when the lady actually broke down. Apparantly the grandmother was actually her sister, who had been suffering from a very aggressive cancer for a very long time. She had collected a lot of dragons and other statues, but the woman went on to say that her children were not fond of her being such a “packrat”. When she died all of her stuff was auctioned, or tossed. The shopkeeper went on to say that she had grabbed the dragons and a few other items to stop them from being pitched. The windstones were actually going to end up in a dumpster and that’s why she grabbed them.
From what she went on to explain to Aeth, is that she only offered the dragons to her because Aeth knew exactly what they were. She also told Aeth that she seemed very excited and treated the dragons with the similiar kind of love her sister had when she was holding them. I think that’s why she offered them all to Aeth so cheap.
She also gave Aeth back her check and said she was very sorry.
I think that right now there probably doesn’t need to be anything else really said about the history of these dragons. I also intend to protect the privacy of the woman as well as her sister at her request. They both knew this forum well apparantly, and the shopkeeper asked Aeth and I to please be respectful and not going into any further detail than what we had to.
I don’t know if Grandmother Maggie posted here or not, but I do know from the size of her collection that she loved Windstones a great deal. I guess I want to apologize to the community here for losing someone like her, and maybe for not even really knowing who she was.
The mysterious fiance is in. I wanted to tell all of you that Aethie will be keeping the dragons. I was a sucker and caved into letting her keep them. I do agree with her that seperating them would be wrong of us, and I think that she would murder me in my sleep if I told her that they had to be sold.
With Aeth having school and not having very good health, I will do my very best to deal with this for her as far as the shopkeeper is concerned. I have about an hour before the shop closes, so I intend to go and stop by and see if she might speak with me. She may tell me more than what she told Aeth. We’ll see.
I also promise to behave myself. The last thing I need is Aeth and the rest of you Crazy Windstone Collectors chasing me down for being a meathead.
I’m sure Aeth will let you know whatever I find out.
NO ONE who has PM’d me should feel upset about it. I did post in the Fleamarket stating I’d found a lot of dragons that I would post for people to see. If anyone had interest in any of what I’d discovered, I’d said myself to please PM me so I could keep track.
-I- said that. No one should feel bad. I just don’t know how long it will be before I can sort through everyone’s messages. But I certainly don’t want people to feel bad or guilty because of what I said they could do if they had interest in the windstones.
Dragonmedly said:
“If you decide to sell, don’t feel guilty. This is the reason why you bought them in the first place; to resell, no? As long as you sell to someone you know will love them as much as this woman did, that’s the important part.”
To be honest, Medly.. I wasn’t thinking of selling anything when I first saw that Emperor staring at me. Being a college student I can’t really afford to invest in the windstones I’ve wanted. I thought I was looking at only one dragon at the time. I wasn’t expecting to find someone’s collection. When I posted on the forums, it was because I’d ended up with a lot of dragons I didn’t think I had to the room to keep. And.. knowing the community on this forum, you all love your windstones very much and would take good care of the ones I was going to offer up. That was the main reason I’d posted originally. I wanted forum members to have a chance at some old dragons for their collections.
I just wasn’t expecting to find family keepsakes and pictures, and the amount of love that was put into this collection. It’s really overwhelming, and maybe I feel a little strange for wanting to grieve over a woman I’ve never even met.
Dragonmaster asked:
“Even if you do finally find out who she was how will that help anything?”
It’s not really what it would help… it would just be knowing who she is. I didn’t know any of my grandparents, and this woman seems like someone who cared for her grandchildren very much. She would have been someone I would have -wanted- to know. Judging by the little keepsakes I’ve found, she had to have been a very sweet lady.
And to even mention that she might have just been placed in a nursing home really sickens me. It just makes me want to know even more who she is and what happened to her, because I’d definitely be getting in touch with her and offering to bring her back all her dragons to decorate her room.
I really don’t know. At this point I’m going to stay out of it and not try to speak with her again.
I also think that I probably will be keeping all of these dragons, until I figure out what to do. If anything, I would rather give them back to Windstone, or give them all to one person. I don’t think I could seperate any of the pieces from each other. Not after all this mess.
My fiance is suggesting more cabinets and shelves. I’ll have to talk to him about it, since our brood would almost triple should we decide to keep all of these windstones. But, he’s as upset as I am, and he may even go and talk with the shopkeeper himself.
I decided to open the box that the shopkeeper handed over to me when I went to see her. It’s another green emperor that was wrapped in a quilt. He seems to be alright, but the quilt is what caught my attention. I make quilts myself, and I knew this one was handmade. I turned it over and sure enough, there was a small message stitched into the bottom corner. Usually a quilt maker will sign their work somehow, either by stitching it or even hiding it in the fabric in some special way.
The message was done in black embroidery thread, and it reads.
“For Tristan”
“From Grandma Maggie”
“2007”Does anyone know a woman named Maggie on the forums??
I have never been so upset or angry in my entire life.
I went back to the shop to talk with the owner. She was very nice like she was when I was there on Saturday, and actually offered me another box of what she said was windstones. She said she thought that was ‘all of them’.. which I’m still not totally sure what that meant. I went on to ask her where all these dragons had come from, and if she knew the story behind their owner. I also went on to tell her I’d found personal items amongst the dragons I’d already unpacked, and that I really wanted to speak with a family member.
Her being nice, changed over to a sheet of ice. She said she didn’t understand why I was asking so many questions, and that she didn’t have any information about the owner or her family. I told her I just wanted to contact the family and at least tell them that I had personal items I thought they might want. Her response went along the lines of:
“They dumped all those boxes on me because they didn’t want them, and they seemed to be in a rush when they handed them over. I don’t know anything about the grandmother or her family. But I can tell you they didn’t want the dragons.”
And then went on to me I was really young to be asking so many personal questions about people I didn’t know, and to mind my own business.
She also went on to tell me she wanted 100.00 for that last box, which I think was more her being spiteful than anything else. I just wrote her a check, and left.
I’m really at a loss, and I don’t think I’m going to be able to find out anything at all.
I’m sorry everyone. I tried. 🙁
I’m going to do some more sorting, and Lizzie took the two PYO’s to the campus to see if she can track down something in the Photography classrooms to get some pictures.
(I probably should have posted this in this thread over the other one, so I went ahead and double-posted)
I have never been so upset or angry in my entire life.
I went back to the shop to talk with the owner. She was very nice like she was when I was there on Saturday, and actually offered me another box of what she said was windstones. She said she thought that was ‘all of them’.. which I’m still not totally sure what that meant. I went on to ask her where all these dragons had come from, and if she knew the story behind their owner. I also went on to tell her I’d found personal items amongst the dragons I’d already unpacked, and that I really wanted to speak with a family member.
Her being nice, changed over to a sheet of ice. She said she didn’t understand why I was asking so many questions, and that she didn’t have any information about the owner or her family. I told her I just wanted to contact the family and at least tell them that I had personal items I thought they might want. Her response went along the lines of:
“They dumped all those boxes on me because they didn’t want them, and they seemed to be in a rush when they handed them over. I don’t know anything about the grandmother or her family. But I can tell you they didn’t want the dragons.”
And then went on to me I was really young to be asking so many personal questions about people I didn’t know, and to mind my own business.
She also went on to tell me she wanted 100.00 for that last box, which I think was more her being spiteful than anything else. I just wrote her a check, and left.
I’m really at a loss, and I don’t think I’m going to be able to find out anything at all.
I’m sorry everyone. I tried. 🙁
I’m going to do some more sorting, and Lizzie took the two PYO’s to the campus to see if she can track down something in the Photography classrooms to get some pictures.
I don’t want to see any fighting over this at all. When I’d posted originally, I didn’t understand just how precious my find was. I was very excited to share my discovery with the forums as well. But.. someone did pass away, and she left behind a beautiful collection. Really.. I’m not even worried so much about the dragons at this point. I just want to know who this lady was.. that’s all.
It’s really saddening.
No fighting or arguing of any sort over this? Please?
I couldn’t sleep, so I’ve locked myself in the office with a mug of tea and another box in my lap.
I do want to know who this woman was. I never, ever thought that a snoop through an antique shop would turn into something like this. I also wasn’t expecting to find some of the more personal items left in these boxes that should have gone to a family member. The little pinkie curlie for example. If that picture was of the collector’s grandchild, I would think he or she would want that dragon for the personal value alone. The more I think about it, the more angry I get.
These dragons were neatly packed away, and with how much care was put into placing them in their boxes, I think only a windstone lover could have done it. It seems like the boxes were never gone through, or the family just didn’t care. Or maybe they were just grieving and didn’t want to go through personal things. I don’t know.. but I feel like so much was just thrown away for no reason.
I -will- be making phonecalls tomorrow. If any of the windstone staff wants to contact me personally, I can provide my cell in a pm. I may be away from the comp all day, so you all might not hear from me until tomorrow evening. Four hour classes also have to be taken into account. ><
