[Sca-cooks] Re: [Caid_Pelican] Fwd: [medieval-leather] SCA Leather Coronet onEbay

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Apparently, the lady who commissioned it does not want it.  Here from
the Caid list, forwarded by Lady Celestia. I believe she got it from the
Rialto, newsgroup rec.arts.sca.  I'm sorry the ending is not as happy as
it could be, but it does stand as a refreshing example of how the SCA
community pulls together in aid of its own.

Selene

>   Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 14:19:40 -0400
>    From: "Laura Dolan" <lauradolan at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Cursed Coronet- Please let this albatross be gone!
>
> Yes, Yes, Yes...  the coronet for auction on e-bay is the one that I
> commissioned from Rolaine SEVEN years ago, yet have never seen.
Nothing
but
> bad luck has been involved in everything it has touched in these seven

years.
> It is cursed, an albatross around my neck, and I want nothing
whatsoever
to do
> with the blasted thing.
>
> One year ago it was shipped by Rolaine in the mail, uninsured and with
no
> return address.  It did not get to me and thus became the legal
property
of the
> US Postal Service.  The coronet was sold at auction to someone in the
business
> of reselling legally claimed lost goods.  It belongs to him now and he

HAS the
> legal right to sell it.
>
> Please be assured that if for ANY reason it should return to my
possession, I
> intend to immediately dispose of the wretched thing in the nearest
garbage
> recepticle, where I feel it belongs.
>
> Thank you all, sincerely, for your good wishes on my behalf.  That
said,
please
> respect my wishes... I do not want this cursed object in my life.  Let
it
be
> gone, and please let this issue drop!