There were buyers a plenty, but most were offering too little for it. That was a first hard lesson in how easily people undervalue the time and effort that goes into a handcrafted work of art. In this industrial instant now age, people can't conceive the effort.

What I had meant in the article was, it was hard for me to part with it because I was attached to it.

Truth be told, in the end I still sold it for way under of what I would sell it for these days. I guess that is an experience and confidence thing.