[meteorite-list] a little collector advice........

From: Martin Horejsi <martinh_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:02:27 2004
Message-ID: <B8B3B892.22F5%martinh_at_isu.edu>

Dean kindly wrote:

On 3/12/02 8:36 PM, "dean bessey" <deanbessey_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

> All canadian meteorites
> are pretty much in that catagory to. I sold a 54 gram St Robert at $9 a gram
> a while back and had people emailing me for days wanting more. It is a lousy
> H5 that would be hard to sell for $1 a gram if it fell 100 miles to the
> south.

Well Dean, when you deal with falls, there is more to the story than the
numbers. I know the debate between Sahara meteorites compared to other
meteorites as far as story and value, but it was you that picked on H5 falls
in the US.

It took me several years of work chasing an illusive H5 I wanted more than
about any other specimen. Yes, it did fall south of your/our border. Not
only that, it was from one of those states littered with meteorites,
Oklahoma, I believe.

Anyway, even though it was just an H5, it was so valuable, I had never ever
seen a piece more than a gram or two for sale.

To make a long story short, I finally was able to acquire a beautiful
complete slice of this ordinary chondrite H5.

Now me and my slice of Lost City are inseparable!

There is always more to the story. If you are only in if for the numbers,
then collecting is easy. But once you enter the human element where we place
intangible value on specimens, there is no complete logic to the economics
of meteorites.

Cheers,

Martin
Received on Tue 12 Mar 2002 03:52:19 PM PST