AW: AW: [meteorite-list] Adventura del Monte Meteorite

From: Steve Schoner <schoner_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Jul 14 12:10:00 2006
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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
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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.

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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