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Aunt Nadiene's Thai Carved Ruby in Zoisite, Aventurine, Citrine and Garnet Owls on a Cliff

A Main Séance and Reading Room Find

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This is another of our very long listings with an abundant text and 12 photographs, so please sit back and read the writeup through.

If you have come this far, we feel you will find it was worth the wait.

It has now been nearly twenty-four and a half years (12/06/2001) ago since we were called to do an estate that had been closed up for seventeen years!

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The Voodoo Estate!

This type of call usually gets us excited as they are a treasure trove.  Located here in Florida, there was no electricity or running water so we rigged our own lighting and in we went.  If you have ever seen the Adams Family you will have some idea as to what we were greeted with!  Then the attorney handling the liquidation gave us some background.  The estate had belonged to an alleged powerful Voodoo Priestess/JooJoo Exorcist, grand daughter of a Marie Laveau, and favored daughter of a Marie Glapion.

These names meant nothing to us, but the late night talk of Voodoo and exorcism in the old mansion was enough for us to spend the night in a hotel and return in the morning to assess the estate.  The rest is history.

Our research has shown that this woman was what she claimed and was indeed descended from a long line of well known Vodoun family originating in New Orleans in the early 1800's.  We were pretty unnerved by this until we discovered they were also devout Catholics!  Although I have to admit this was unlike any Catholic home we have ever been in and some of the items found inside were a little more than disturbing.

There was no feeling of dread or unwelcome in the mansion, however there was quite a bit of contraband and other items we can or will not sell here.

This is one of a few pieces from this estate we will be listing this week, so check our other listings!

 We will, upon the new guardian's request, issue a named Letter of Authenticity with each lot from this estate, complying with the terms set forth to us by the estate's attorney.

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Some Back Story

The owl trio gemstone carving shown and offered here is one of the items found and recovered from the antique carved jewelry casket (shown above and not part of this deal).  It is one of three boxes recovered from a cabinet in the foyer lounge to her main séance and reading room.  These rooms were a commercial endeavor that had a wealthy following and it is where many of the major séances of this estate were conducted.  Many, if not all of her associates worked this room, conducting séances, card readings and numerous forms of divination for their clientèle.  Apparently this was a lucrative endeavor, as it remained active for over six decades.  Her journals tell us they would load this box with items they felt they could sell at a premium, whether through enchantments they had placed on them or through an items history of its own.

Their journals list a host of well known psychics, mediums and other celebrities that would make guest appearances and that these events were booked to capacity well in advance. 

They also tell us this gemstone carving was purchased by her Aunt Nadiene from the display cases of a Thai jeweler of Chanthaburi in 1956.  This jeweler had copied a handful of gold and gemstone rings in vermeil for her, many of which were gifted and inherited by her niece.  While there, she purchased a sizable quantity of jewelry and these gemstone carvings which she sent home as gifts and merchandise for resale to their clients. 

It is certainly a wonderful hand carved gemstone artifact with an extraordinary provenance that is much nicer than the photographs have been able to depict.

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We have been contacted and visited by a number of people who were interested in the items from this estate since our first batch was listed.  Among the buyers have been known psychics and practitioners.  More than one, after adorning themselves or handling their purchase, stated, "this is a woman of power!"  Many of our customers, after receiving items from this estate have reported dream contacts and other unexplained phenomenon.  Unusual, authentic Voodoo Priestess Estate piece and at a bargain price!

This is truly a rare opportunity to own anything with attributes to this estate.  The majority of this estate is now gone.  Most of what we had left, and it was considerable, has been split up and sold to a couple of private, foreign collector practitioners and will never be available to the public again.  We made the decision to do this as we have had some pretty strange visits from even stranger individuals and there have been enough unexplained phenomenon going on in the warehouse where her things were kept that many of our employees refused to go in there.  The pieces offered and sold here are some of the few remaining pieces that will ever be offered to the public.

Nice addition to any collection, altar, wardrobe or decor, displays really well.

Really doesn't get any better than this.

There are 12 photographs below to tell the rest of this tale.

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