[meteorite-list] First Meteorite and David New

From: Matt <Matt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:40 2004
Message-ID: <004201c19548$93e978a0$8fbf7fa5_at_D7220234W2K>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexander Seidel" <ase_at_planet-interkom.de>
To: "Bernd Pauli HD" <bernd.pauli_at_lehrer1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Cc: "Bob King" <lakewind_at_infi.net>; <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] First Meteorite and David New


> David is still around, though mainly as a natural diamonds dealer in
> these days, and btw will be in Tucson in a couple of weeks to "...look
> over all the meteorite stocks checking prices and types..." (recent
> private communication). So any of you guys lucky enough to attend the
> show will have a chance to meet that fine old gent walking around
> looking at spacerocks. I wonder whether all those younger generation
> dealers like Dean Bessey, Mike Farmer, Matt Morgan etc., who nowadays
> more or less rely on the internet, personally know that old-time-dealer
> from the pre-internet times. He was one of the only very few ones around
> then, in this business since the Fifties or so.
>

Alex:
I never personally met David but would really like to. I've heard MANY good
things of him and actually have a few specimens with his label, in my
collection. And what nice specimens they are, especially the Soko Banja LL4!

Matt Morgan
Received on Fri 04 Jan 2002 12:52:28 PM PST