Mark,
Nervous is not the word!! I know how I felt when my Rearing Horse was being shipped from the States,mind you Jim had it so well packed that it did arrive safe and well,I am a Father and it was as bad as waitng for that day your child is born.Had the piece been damaged then I would have been distraught,not because of the money lost,but because of the rarity of the piece and its loss to history,it remains a pleasure to the eye.
Ivan.