[meteorite-list] Emil Cohen's Market trends of 1899

From: Martin Altmann <Altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Apr 13 19:20:28 2005
Message-ID: <005d01c54080$2b1dec20$0d689a54_at_9y6y40j>

Uuh the old days, 1983...I think it must have 1981, when I get my first
meteorite (which was infact a tektite, I still have it sitting on my
bookshelf). - For little Martin the Munich show was always like Christmas,
where unfortunately most presents were out of reach.
I remember Big Walter Zeitschel - my first real meteorite I bought from him,
a 90g Mundrabilla individual for 90DEM..., I may mix the impressions with
the year, but I think Carion was very early there, I believe to remember the
yellow-orange Cinsneros-labels and of course Robert Haag, who himself came
across as fallen from a parallel universe, with the beautiful girls ans as a
glamrocker.....
Once, in 1989, there was an exhibition of meteorites at the show.....
....wait, somewhere I have the catalogue, where also the exhibitors are
listed....

Here we are. 1989:
Cisneros,
Allen Lang, (in the dealer's catalogue is written as his speciality:
trilobites & eurypyterids)
Sielecki&Rea, I remember they had always a few meteorites from Australia.
Robert Haag
Carillo, I don't remember, listed with: "meteorite slices for self grinding
and sealing"...perhaps Campo??
Ahmed, Colognia (they had always only a few Gibeons and sick high prices).
Walter Zeitschel (he was looking each year the same, no idea wether he was
looking so old, when he was younger or vice versa)
Weber, with "meteorites from Argentina"

There must have been more, but those where those, who advertized in their
entries in the dealers catalogue, that they have meteorites or meteorites
among their assortment.
That shows, that meteorites weren't very popular yet,
nowadays every third or fourth dealer in the fair catalogue boast to have
meteorites, even if they have only 2 pieces of iron or tektites only.

Buckleboo!
Martin


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Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 10:34 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Emil Cohen's Market trends of 1899


> Thank you Buckleboo Martin for taking upon you this huge,
> time-consuming but rewarding task of comparing prices
> and availability of meteorites then and now.
>
> Alex wrote:
>
> > My fellow collector friends on this list, who already were around
> > as collectors in those days ... surely know what I am talking about
>
> Yes, I can very well relate to those days. The arrival of a new sales
> list from David New was eagerly awaited and opening the mail was like
> opening an Xmas present. David's letters usually started with a report
> on the weather conditions in Anacortes, Washington :-)
>
> - April 11, 1988 clear and cool
> - August 12, 1988 cloudy and hopes of some rain
> - December 20, 1988 windy and cold
>
> Some of my correspondence even goes back to 1983. On October 26,
> 1983, I received a letter from Robert O. Rose from Odessa, Texas.
>
> He was offering uncut and unetched Odessas (one hundred pounds or
> more at $38 per pound -- under 100 pounds $40 per pound. One US
> dollar was DM 2.65 (about EURO 1.32 or $1.70 in October 1983).
>
> Again, a direct comparison with nowaday's prices is impossible because
> wages were lower, a new car cost far less than today, and oil and gas
> prices in Germaqny had not yet broken the sound barrier (but were already
> much higher than in the United States).
>
> > an almost revolutionary boost with the dramatically increasing
> > possibilities of private access to the internet for a wide public
> > in the past decade.
>
> .. and the "Hot Desert" bonanza. I am so happy that I jumped on the NWA
> and Dhofar, etc. "bandwagon" as this bonanza will ebb sooner or later. One
> example: There are presently 45 eucrites in my collection (this includes
> thin sections and double specimens). Only 10 out of these 45 are not from
> the Hot Desert regions, and if you saw my Millbillillie or my Camel Donga
> next to my NWA 3147, you would be hard pressed to tell which is which!
>
> Back to Buckleboo Martin's market trends. Lodran would have cost 104.19$
> per gram. I paid $2500 per gram for Bruno and Carine's NWA 2235 lodranite.
> A horrendous amount of money you might think. But we should keep in mind
> that as a teacher (which I am in case you did not know), I would have
earned
> a fraction of what I do earn now in 2005.
>
> Best wishes and
> Thank you, Martin,
>
> Bernd
>
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