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Re: New Campos
J. Warren wrote:
Flooding the market is when you buy a piece of Nakhla, hammer it to
pieces, and sell a piece of dust for $20.00. You suddenly have hundreds
of pieces pieces available to fill holes in peoples collections, and it
lowers the value of the larger pieces. (SNIP)
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J.,
I don't think this was directed at me, so, I feel no defensiveness. I
am curious, however, that you leap to the conclusion that selling small
frags of very rare material so that collectors with a modest income can
afford to have them SOMEHOW "lowers the value of the larger pieces."
HOW do you jump to that conclusion??? I have been selling complete sets
of all the known non-Antarctic SNCs for a couple of years - $1,500 for a
set consisting of very small frags & $7,000 for a set of substantial
sized frags. While I have sold, perhaps, 2 or 3 times as many small
sets, I HAVE sold many of the very large sets. Niether I nor these
buyers seemed to feel their larger specimens were somehow "cheapened" by
the existance of small fragments in many more collections. Of course, I
have kept one of these larger specimen collections for myself - I just
don't see how many others having small specimen collections makes my set
somehow of "less value."
I also, like most collectors, have small samples of DAG 262 & DAG400
lunar meteorites. I saw an AWSOME ultra thin slice about half the size
of a dollar bill (it was "only" $80K). It most certainly did not, in any
way, seem to be of "less value" simply because I had a small fragment of
the same material at home.
How do other list members feel about this issue?
Best wishes, Michael
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