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No Selling At Show

List,

I have just received this notice from a convention I have sold
meteorites at for a few years. My inital responce was to let them know
that dealers do quite a lot in the way of education of meteorites as
well as providing new specimens that would have been lost to science had
there been no inscentive to look for new specimens. I thought I would
post part of the message but if the demand is there I will post the
message in whole for all to see. Your comments about this are welcomed
and especially from other dealers who might have some thoughts on this.


Our club board of directors in the planning stages for the convention
made
the decision to strongly discourage meteorite sales at the convention
and
all invitations sent to dealers, including those handling various
merchandise, expressed that policy.  The board's sentiments on that
subject
have to do with, among other things, controversy involving imports,
thefts
of collections, spiraling speculation in the meteorite market that
threatens scientific study and places these items in the domain of
gemstones.  Many see the use of these items in jewelry and knife blades
akin to processing rare fossils into  expensive nick-nacks. I am sure
there
are differing opinions on this, and I am not writing to you to be
malicious
or anything, but just to say we have some firm feelings about this.

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