[meteorite-list] Park Forest

From: Michael Farmer <farmerm_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:23:53 2004
Message-ID: <006501c2f5fe$706af030$20609ecd_at_S0027239467>

Wait, you just said you think it is worth $7 gram max. You will not see a
gram for that.
Mike
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From: "M come Meteorite Meteorites" <mcomemeteorite2000_at_yahoo.it>
To: "Michael Farmer" <farmerm_at_concentric.net>;
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Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 12:54 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Park Forest


> This is no just, the museum want take all pieces for
> no give any piece to the collectors, the all pieces go
> to the museum and after the museum have the all
> material and is possible sale or trade this pieces for
> a high price. If I am one of the persons find a piece
> of this fall, not sure I sale to a museum - give a low
> price - but I give to a meteorite dealer. I inform all
> I am interested in a little piece for my collection.
> regards
>
>
> Matteo
>
>
> --- Michael Farmer <farmerm_at_concentric.net> wrote:
> > More information. I had dinner and drinks tonight
> > with Steve Witt, Al Lang, Adam Hupe, Al Mitterling
> > and Steve Arnold, (NOT Chicago:).
> > We are all outraged at what has happened here.
> > Ill explain more. The fact is that yesterday morning
> > several pieces were sold for $1 gram, not an unfair
> > price in the field, low but no big deal. Then the
> > newspapers and news told everyone that the value is
> > $500 per ounce! The Chicago Field Museum curator was
> > telling the police that the people had to sell to
> > them and not to any collectors. So now many people
> > are going to the Field Museum tomorrow to sell their
> > pieces to the museum. They are under the assumption
> > that they must sell them there as that is what the
> > local police is passing on. The prices here are now
> > not under $10 gram, and the people whose homes were
> > hit are at $50 gram plus. Completely out of the
> > realm of reality considering that many homes were
> > hit here. If it were one, I could understand.
> > Another note, the strewnfield is NOT 80 miles long,
> > many people started reporting slag and asphalt
> > everywhere. There are 30 to 40 kilos known, more
> > likely but press coverage is extreme and everyone
> > knows because the TV told them that it is $500 an
> > ounce.
> > So, it looks like if it isn't snowing tomorrow, that
> > ill hunt all day and leave here Sunday. There is
> > nothing more to be gained trying to bargain with the
> > locals. Maybe later they will sell some, but it will
> > NOT be cheap, I don't see how it could.
> > I have a few fragments that hit a house, and with
> > photos and pieces of plastic siding broken off the
> > wall. This was from the impact on Winslow Street. If
> > anyone wants a piece or partslice of these
> > fragments, let me know, ill make a list, figure the
> > price when I get home, and see which orders I can
> > fill. It would be best if you told me the exact
> > amount you want to spend. This is all Ill have for
> > sale.
> > Mike Farmer
> > PS. Portales was a fun but stressful hunt, this one
> > blows Portales to hell, people are very very
> > unfriendly here, not all of course, but the Museum
> > did dealers and collectors very wrong here with what
> > they said, Ill be rethinking and dealings from now
> > on with this type of bad press. I have donated over
> > $100,000 in meteorites to museums, and now to have
> > them telling people that all the dealers are here to
> > rip them off really chaps my $%#$#$
> >
>
>
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Received on Sat 29 Mar 2003 09:21:02 AM PST