[meteorite-list] From my kitchen...

From: joseph_town_at_att.net <joseph_town_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon May 24 12:33:01 2004
Message-ID: <052420041632.29902.40B223B60006E28B000074CE2160280741FF9188908BA0978F9A8C90_at_att.net>

Mr. Altmann,

Please put a nice individual on hold for me. Price is no object but I would like a very fresh 100% crusted individual. I assume the bakery is now open and fresh specimens are available. Use your own discretion in the preparation of this individual but please hold the mustard.

Thanks!
Bill


> Hi folks, I am writing right from my kitchen now, as I approached there
> around 10:15 GMT. Not many people know about my kitchen, but I do. Now I am
> here. I wonder, if I should open the fridge now and should make public, what
> I'll find inside, before other fridge hunters will break the secret right
> here on the list.
> Lot of traffic here, three cats, two from the neighbourhood - professional
> fridge watchers, although Monday is the worst day for breakfast here in
> central Europe. Shops closed on Sunday, no fresh bread....Recently a well
> known researchers team found some hints, that leaving home without breakfast
> could cause an ulcus.
> Found some old cheese. No pictures available. Guess I will offer some slices
> exclusively to the list, 2$/gm, before I will dedicate the main mass to
> science, as it has some strange greenish layers inside (sediments??),
> similar to Sir Divelbiss' Martian Gabbro surrogates. So hush, hush, get it,
> while it's old.
> And, what is this..... wow, a tupperware box full of howardite slices!! I
> forgot to unpack, after I returned from the Gifhorn show.
> M a r v e l l o u s. Three different. Two classical ones and a totally
> disturbed one. Two are non-NWAs, so those have correct find data and no
> troubles with the paired stuff, where each stone gets his own NWA-number,
> because each dealer bought a stone and got an own classification for it,
> rushing the poor collectors into buying with the super-low-tkw-gimmick,
> while the uncle from Morocco has still a lorryload of the material in his
> cellar.
> And how thin they are cut! Some have a square inch, weighing in below 2
> grams. And quite fresh. One is W1-W2, the other W2, the third has some
> glossy crust...have to look for the data.
>
> Humm, the neighbour cats are not interested in meteorites and my little
> black one likes more the irons, because they cause more noise, when they are
> kicked through the house.....so I should sell the stuff.
> But would it be a good idea to post it on the central list? I find on the
> dealers pages desert howardites, often in fat amorph chunks, priced at 100$
> per gram. Wouldn't they get angry, if I'll give my slices away at 50$ to the
> list members and what would Mr.Market Trend think? On the other hand one is
> only allowed to post an add, if the price is remarkably reduced...and
> imagine the difficulties... I'm from the old world and the US-collectors are
> so shy, wouldn't they think, that such a low price for thin slices (gosh,
> what a cut loss!) must be a tricky trick? So I'd make dozens of photos, post
> it to the list and the result will be, that they'll think that I'm a foolish
> cheater or the material would be worthless, because I priced it so low and
> thus the work will have been for nothing.
> But on the Gifhorn meteorite fair my howardites sold best of all my stuff,
> so the brave ones, who will dare to order, would be happy and I could buy a
> new chunk of cheese.....
>
> It's so difficult.
> Well, first I'll drink a coffee, perhaps meanwhile I'll get some helpfull
> emails from here.
> Bye,
> Martin
>
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Received on Mon 24 May 2004 12:32:57 PM PDT