[meteorite-list] Museum Bally-Prior

From: Martin Horejsi <accretiondesk_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Nov 18 11:30:19 2005
Message-ID: <9c2f96d20511180830i1b395786j64f19ac8cc085881_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Martin and All,

Thank for the info on the Bally-Prior Museum.

In my current Accretion Desk article in the MeteoriteTimes.com, I
asked viewers to share any information about the source of a crusted
specimen of the Mern meteorite that moved through the J.M. DuPont
collection.

There was a notation on the card with a BMS number and text indicating
an exchange with Bally. I suspected that BMS was the British Museum,
but instead as a thoughful reader pointed out, is actually Bally-Prior
Museum in Switzerland.

Here is the link to the article, and the specimen card in question is
about half-way through the page.

http://meteoritetimes.com/current_links/Accretion_Desk.htm

Cheers,

Martin


On 11/18/05, Martin Altmann <Altmann_at_meteorite-martin.de> wrote:
> A little side note:
>
> von D?niken bought a large part of the meteorites of the Bally-Prior Museum
> in Switzerland,
> which closed down in 2003. They had a remarkable meteorite collection,
> consisting of specimens from the colln of Bally-Prior (1847-1926), who
> bought meteorites from the Ward-Coonley Colln, from Brezina. Later the cllm
> of C.C.Lee was added.
> All in all they had more than 400 meteorites from more than 300 localities.
> Rolf B?hler was the curator.
> D?niken bought them - I got to know, when I just tried to sell him a
> DaG262-slice, but I was a little bit to late - to exhibit them at his
> "Mystery Park" - a kind of Disney World for ufologists:
> http://www.mysterypark.ch
>
> Was anybody of our Suisse friends already there to visit the poor
> meteorites?
>
> Buckleboo?
> Martin
>
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