Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Nathaniel
....Okay, so while that is not all...I would love to hear the opinions of others...I see there have been several views..
|
Well written and well spoken Nathaniel, I look forward to further dialogue.
Many valid notations to consider. Balance in anything is Key and every situation in every moment in time has different factors to consider.
I too have seen many different views from the helpful to the lamenting.
So many items, so many personalities. So many reasons how they ended up with us all. My manner in dealing with these notations is rather varied and each individual relationship is considered on its own merit. Somethings I feel will always stay with me because I feel I can offer it the most stable enviroment, anything else outside of this thought of mine is an unknown so better the devil I know, but saying that I have been surprised and will be surprised again :-)
All I can say is do what feels right to you in these dealings. In the end we all depart this physical realm, the universe will sort it all out in its own way long after we are all gone. Enjoy what you have and help others enjoy it too.
One of my most recent rewarding experineces involved the Hayes Kukri I had. I bought it from an estate sale in the UK after a friend sent me some images from his I-phone.
As it was, it was placed there by accident with some other goods by the mother of a gentleman called Justin. She was only cleaning out her fathers estate who recently passed away.
Justin caught wind of this when he asked where it was because it was left to him by his grandfather and he had a wonderful attachment to his Grandfather. He was gutted to say the least when he found out from his mother that it was gone, gone forever.
Well after this gut wrenching experience, Justin went on more determined than ever to research his Grandfathers military history as every single item he ever had pertaining to his time in the military all had the same details, service number, name, rank etc written or engraved in to it, I mean everything.
Well Justin doing a word search found the Hayes Kukri on my site and as he said to me, he cried and ocean and contacted he immeadiately outling the Hayes Kukri story and his personal contact details.
I read it and read it again and saw the sincerity in the mail. Long story short, I contacted him by phone. He was amazed, grateful to have found it and extremely emotional. We agreed on a near cost price and I slipped in to the package the Wadge kukri too (part of his grandfathers estate), he was very clear he didn't want it as he could not afford it (a wife and three kids will do that to you), this good gesture now turns in to Justin finding the correct home for the Wadge Kukri as I feel for it to be in is granfathers estate it was most likely from a friend who has passed.
Whats it all means? Nothing and everything, all a matter of perspective. Justin is now trying to find the Wadge family to pass the Kukri on with the story of his grandfather, he is over the moon and has a story to tell the kids and that family history is back home again, I have a friend for life etc etc but on the matter of the Kukri and where it should lay ethnically , it doesn't come in to the equation despite being a Nepalese weapon by nature, it is were it really belongs.
I think very few weapons could every be placed so exactly where they really belong and this is why I say; "do what feels right to you in these dealings." Every thing has its own rewards be it with you to preserve in your life time or pass to another to with it what they will.
Other points I will let be Nathaniel.
Gav