have?
We’ve been asked if there’s
anything too weird. I think my
thresholds a little high there
because honestly my business
partner turned away a mummified head that I’m still to this
day really wishing she didn’t.
She said it had a stink to it from
decomposition but it was old, it
was from Egypt, not necessarily
an Egyptian mummy, but it was
a very old head, I would have
bought it in a second. I wasn’t
there that day, this dude brings
it in and says it was given to
him, his family were missionaries in Egypt decades ago, they
were given this head, they hate
it, they don’t want it, he was
practically going to give it to us,
and she said no. She said oh
no the smell, it was horrible, and I was like ugh, tell me your fucking around
with me, tell your kidding around, because that’s insane, why would you
give away a mummy head like that? Why would you let that mummy head
walk out the door? But she did. A friend of mine actually once passed on a
shrunken head, it was actually a child’s head and it wasn’t terribly old, so
that we passed on. Also anything illegal, that’s the other problem. In this
business, official wildlife stuff, owls, eagles, hawks, predatory birds, great
apes, songbirds, is all the stuff you’re not allowed to have, that we passed
on. And skulls, like American Indian remains, that’s a felony, you go to the
penitentiary for that, we passed on those. Also anything dug out of a grave,
again that’s illegal, so not so much.
Do you have any favorite clients?
Favorite clients? No. We’ve had a lot of clients over the years, people often
ask, “who shops at your shop?”. It’s everyone you would expect and every199