[meteorite-list] Meteorite talk in tucson

From: Michael L Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 21 15:51:23 2005
Message-ID: <BE8D5263.1B821%mlblood_at_cox.net>

Hi Alexander & all,
        Every major collection owner I know has specifically asked me to
keep my knowledge of their collection sub rosa. There is an over riding
and single reason for this: they fear the possibility of robbery.
        The single exception is Bob Haag, who's collection is in a room
built into a giant rock with a bank vault door out of the movies. It would
take THE ITALIAN JOB type force headed by Bruce Willis, Edward
Norton & Robert Deniro to break in. So, he has little to fear other
than another K-T event. Most others do not have quite as much security,
though I have seen some that would present overwhelming difficulties
to any would be burgler. In any event, they prefer a degree of anonymity -
at least limited to showing their collections to people they know.
        Of course, even there, there is a risk, as a magician demonstrated
to Bob Haag once why he needs video cameras running at all times
when anyone is in his collection room. (Those who have seen
ROUNDERS are familiar with the phenomenal abilities possessed by
someone with highly developed slight of hand skills). So, now he not
only has perhaps the greatest secure room in the meteorite collecting
world, but also has video tapes of the entire room any time anyone
enters. Few, if any, institutions are so secure.
        Best wishes, Michael

on 4/21/05 11:08 AM, Alexander Seidel at gsac_at_gmx.net wrote:

> Who of the *r e a l* high rollers regarding privately owned meteorites in
> this world will fully and publicly tell you quantities or qualities, for
> reasons whatever...?? I mean there are definitely quite a bunch of
> collectors around with collections truly deserving an adjective like
> "giant". Some of them are shy and won?t talk about it at all, some of them
> are modest and won?t talk about it too much in the public, others raise
> their voice much too loudly, some may know this list, some not....
>
> "The largest in the world", sort of a "world-record-collector", makes no
> sense in this respect. And it definitely is not only a play of numbers, but
> instead much more adds to a qualification which may come close to what you
> are musing about.
>
> P.S.: to me (subjectively, of course) Bob Haag still is the ultimate
> collector and undisputed highest of all the living high rollers which I know
> of in this field. This has not only to do with his enormous collection
> figured in numbers but what he eventually *d i d* as a frontierman
> especially in the (non-internet-)years when many of us even did not even
> know how to spell the m-word. He obviously is not on this list, as he
> probably doesn?t care for this kind of communication, whatever is going on
> here every now and then. On the other hand there are lots and lots of other
> high rollers, but then again numbers alone don?t count...
>
> Alex
> Berlin/Germany
>
>> What determines the "largest in the world". Number of pieces, quality,
>> rare? I wanna know since this title gets tossed around ALOT.
>>
>> ===============
>> Matt Morgan
>> Mile High Meteorites
>> P.O. Box 151293
>> Lakewood, CO 80215 USA
>> http://www.mhmeteorites.com
>> ebay id: mhmeteorites
>>
>>
>>
>> DNAndrews wrote:
>>
>>> Hmmm....I had no idea that Marvin had the largest private meteorite
>>> collection in the world. Learn something new everyday.
>>> Also, I hope the Flandreau gives proper credit to John Blennert for
>>> all the "freebies" he has donated to them over the years.
>>> Sounds like a nice event indeed. Thanks for sharing Eric.
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> star-bits_at_comcast.net wrote:
>>>
>>>> FYI for those in the Tucson area.
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Eric Olson
>>>> ELKK Meteorites
>>>> http://www.star-bits.com
>>>>
>>>>
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