They rewove the cording and shined it up properly. The rumor is that back in the day, that very shop was the court jeweler for some of the Mughal emperors. I helped them bring in artisans from one of the famous workshops in Jaipur. “I think you’ll enjoy seeing the restoration of the Moon. “I should be going.” But not before he empties the last of the bottle into Nell’s glass. He slips the patched and faded photograph of his great-grandmother into his jacket pocket, unasked, sips the last of his champagne, and stands. So a public sale by a third party was the best way.” With the Moon, quite frankly, I couldn’t let that happen again. “And we lost a piece I dearly wanted by being too direct in our approach. Some of it is my own fault, yes,” he says, acknowledging his past faux bidding. “But I have had the experience in the past of people assuming all sorts of things, most of them wrong, when I am involved in a sale. “Please know this is not personal to you,” he says.
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