Regret is a strong word and I don't use it lightly

I probably am right in saying that I truly regret not buying a stained glass window, Let me explain

There used to be a museum in Massachusetts called "The Higgins Armory". They had an amazing collection of medieval weapons and armor. I had visited it twice. (You can see pictures and videos I took right here). Anyway, they went out of business due to financial problems.

A lot of their collection went to the Worcester Museum of Art. And some of their collection went up for auction at Sotheby's in London where it garnered over two million dollars in sales.

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So, about the stained glass window

It was a kneeling and praying knight

I was on a mailing list with the museum and one day I got an email from Sotheby's announcing the auction. They asked if I would like a full color catalog sent to me. It would be of the items for auction.

I said absolutely yes and I received the catalog. Well, looking through it I found a small stained glass window of a kneeling and praying knight. It was a simple window but it really struck me. And they estimated it would auction for the price of around six hundred dollars.

Wouldn't it be cool if I pursued it? I could book a flight to London, stay a few days, visit the auction and bid on that window. But doubt crept in. Was I that kind of rich jet-setting person? To fly to London and bid at an auction? I am, after all, just a guy who grew up in a depressed middle class town. Nobody I knew would even conceive of doing some thing like that.

Anyway, I never did it. And I now regret it. It's been years and I sometimes think about that stained glass window and the opportunity that I missed to be a mister fancy pants that trots around the world pursuing his dreams and fulfilling his desires.
I don't know what happened to that window. I don't know whether it sold at auction or not. And I have tried finding it online but it seems to have disappeared totally. Maybe it's in a private collection somewhere.

Watch my vlog of this story here:

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