In 2017, one figurine sold for more than $400, and if you’re willing to get rid of an entire lot of them at once, well, that’s worth thousands. They’re especially cute decorations for a new baby’s room and can make great keepsakes.Īnd you’d want to show them off, especially if you’d dropped a lot of cash on them.īased on previous purchases on eBay, people certainly are willing to pay for these tiny dolls. Most of the figurines are Christianity-inspired. Treasure your greatest catch, each and every day! #PreciousMoments #LifesPreciousMoments #truelove #loveĪ post shared by Precious Moments Official on at 10:57am PST Moreover, my father and chacha (her husband and devar), the reasons behind the necklace, were no more in this world, though they were alive in her memories.Remember that first, heavenly kiss? When you just knew that you were with the love of your life? Celebrate all of it – the day you met, your first kiss, your second date and your third grandchild. The string, like human beings, was only weak and transitory. It was now just a useless handful of beads. Strangely, I, too, did not want the necklace anymore. I will re-string the beads.’ Immediately, my mother handed it to her. When the necklace broke on the floor, my niece pleaded, ‘Dadi, give it to me for my doll’s wedding. Obviously, its string had broken, worn away with time. As she lifted it, its beads fell apart, scattering on the floor.

After a few days, my mother opened her jewellery box to look at the necklace. Pratap chacha went to Canada where he soon expired. One evening, my father suddenly breathed his last. And wasn’t I being selfish? I was guilty of this thought that gnawed at my heart. How could she? After all, it was her wedding gift.

But unexpectedly, my mother never offered it to me. However, secretly I wished that if she would give it to me, I would not politely refuse it. I had never demanded anything from my parents, not even a pen or a kerchief. She had worn it only a couple of times on occasions. Certainly, its sentimental value is more than its monetary aspect,’ she would reminisce. More than a necklace, a devar’s love and respect for his bhabhi are strung in it. At that time, he was a student in his teens. ‘It was a wedding gift to me by your Pratap chacha in Rawalpindi in 1946. And then, memories would rush to her mind as she travelled back in time, repeating the same old story. It was striking in its simplicity, being strung with red beads interspersed with tiny golden ones, with a matching pendant, dangling from its centre. Once in a while, she would open it and take out a necklace in red bridal colour.

My mother had a Kashmiri box, carved from walnut wood. However, as we age, desires considerably diminish. The craving to possess is inherent in humans, especially in our younger years. One moment she goes this way and in the next, she takes another path. AriStotle once observed, ‘How helpless we are, like nettled birds, when we are caught by desire!’ Undeniably, Dame Desire is a capricious creature.

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