[meteorite-list] AD: Pedigree specimens for sale - Zeitschel Week at Martins' !!

From: Martin Altmann <Altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat May 7 21:32:25 2005
Message-ID: <000901c5536e$b1aadcc0$bb3f9a54_at_9y6y40j>

My Dearest Folks,

at the moment I'm cashing a collection for a friend and remembering the
recent Haag hype, may he live long and prosper,
I think I have something very interesting for the pedigree specimen
collector to offer:
Some Zeitschel-pieces with labels.

Walter Zeitschel, who must be now in his mid-70ies, is one of the most
important meteorite collectors in history.
Starting in the early 1960ies he collected, hunted and gathered together
with more than 300 plane trips his meteorites and assembled the largest
private meteorite collection in existence, conatining almost 800 locations
(and not NWA 1256-2049), which he sold in 1988 to the National Polar
Research Institute, Tokyo.
It was him from whom little Martin bought his very first meteorite - it must
have been in 1981, when also Bernd acquired his first specimen, also from
Zeitschel and funny enough, my one was a little Mundrabilla too!

Nininger, Monnig, Huss, Haag, King.... for sure a place in that famous row
is due to Walter Zeitschel and certainly his labels and the specimens of his
provenience are special collectibles!

The first one I listed on ebay, ending tomorrow, for you to see, how the
labels look like:
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfrppZ50QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQrdZ0QQsassZpardelmops

ACFER 075
H5
Find 1990
Individual 2.31g

Now the rest....

ALLENDE
CV3.2
Fall 1969
Individual, 80% crust, 14.82g.....................105$

DAG 061
LL5-6
Find 1995
2 cut fragments, 1.36g & 0.95g..................15$

GAO-GUENIE
H5
Fall 1960
Fragment, some crust, 3.14g...................... 10$

GIBEON
IVA
Find 1936
Partslice, 15.98g..................................... .. 24$

HAH 087
L6
Find 1995
Fragment, W0/1, 4.78g...............................10$

NUEVO MERCURIO
H5
Fall 1978
Individual, 100% crust, 21.51g.................175$

ODESSA
IAB
Find 1922
Individual, tumbled, 82.8g..........................85$

PLAINVIEW
H5
Find 1917
Partial encut, fusion crust, 30.80g..............95$

TATAHOUINE
DIO
Fall 1931
Fragment, speck of crust, 2.59g...............40$

TUXTUAC
LL5
Fall 1975
Partslice, crust, 35.65g...........................285$

URUACHIC
IIIAB
Find 1989
Partslice, 37.50g...................................520$

VACA MUERTA
MES
Find 1861
Fullslice, 52.29g...................................110$

ZAGAMI
SNC
Fall 1962
2 Partslices with 1 label for both.
Partslice with crust, 4.14g....................2070$
Partslice without, 0.81g......................405$

and the Hey-Catalogue is still there. Unbelievable. It's Zeitschel's
personal copy with his personal marginalia,
though I offered here at 80bucks, thus cheaper as you will find it at any
antiquarian bookshop in bookfinder.com and abebooks. com and zvab.com
and it's still there! Gooooood Mooooorning, World!!

Details on request. Pictures, when the rain stops here...

(Perhaps a remark on my auctions: That the Markovka is geourgeous is
evident, not so easy visible is, that the Ochansk shows the brecciation,
which rarely can't be observed in most Ochansk, as the contrast between the
two lithologies is so faint, that one needs an extremely fresh specimen like
this one).

That's all for a while!

Buckleboo!!!
Martin
Received on Sat 07 May 2005 09:38:52 PM PDT