AW: AW: [meteorite-list] Adventura del Monte Meteorite
From: Steve Schoner <schoner_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Jul 14 12:10:00 2006 Message-ID: <20060714.082113.14851.331237_at_webmail57.nyc.untd.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:25:35 +0200 From: "Martin Altmann" <altmann_at_meteorite-martin.de> Subject: AW: AW: [meteorite-list] Adventura del Monte Meteorite (meteorwrong?) To: <joseph_town_at_att.net> , <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> Message-ID: <02d901c6a727$7804c720$4f41fea9_at_name86d88d87e2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Martin wrote: Bill, It's rather the pointing out of an excellent opportunity for the collectors, which to have missed, may cause regrets. It isn't that easy anymore to find such large Sikhotes, at fairs you will see only a few larger shrapnels, that's all. Franco's two specimens are cheaply priced, Russian ebay-style from 2-3 years ago. And they have the paperwork for export too. The essential difference to an Ad is, that if the pieces will be sold, I won't earn any pence with that sales and as I personally have no need for those pieces, I have no problems to share my competence with the perhaps not yet so experienced collectors, to tell my opinion about the quality and the price of these specimens, because if some of them perhaps are thinking about having once a bigger Sikhote in their collection, but waver, whether to buy now or rather in some years, it might happen, that they later won't find such large chunks anymore or have to pay a remarkably higher price. This list is about meteorites, but also about meteorite collecting. To laud exceptional meteorite specimens, even if they are for sale, or to recognize an outstanding commercial offer of a competitor, should be bad style? I doubt...but if the other list members share your opinion, I will better myself. And if you take it for an Ad, at least the frequency rule isn't hurt. There. But I'm happy also about the feedback about my other posts, which contain not such infamous commercial coercions...;-) Martin, the enthusiast Here a long sold example of a originally crusted Sikhote for your delight: http://www.spacerocksinc.com/Dec1.html Fusion crust on irons illustrated with pics, could be a good and necessary thread on da list. END ------ Martin and list, Yes your Sikhote is a very nice original 1947 - 1950 recovered specimen no doubt, (Thanks for posting that pic) But so is the "Adventura" See http://www.meteoritearticles.com/aventura.html Even if it proves to be a displaced Sikhote, at 127 lbs it is a very nice piece. But if it is a new fall as the ebay seller claimed, then it is extraordinary. No doubt, Mike Fowler got a great deal, and it would be great to hear of the classification results. Steve Schoner IMCA #4470 Received on Fri 14 Jul 2006 11:20:49 AM PDT |
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