[meteorite-list] Austria Will Issue Stamps with Meteorite Powder

From: Walter Branch <branchw_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Mar 10 16:41:56 2006
Message-ID: <004201c6448b$63076610$6101a8c0_at_BranchFamily>

I have collected stamps off and on for about 35 years.

This sounds great to me. Many stamps and covers over the years have had tie
ins to supposedly unrelated fields.

As an aside, I also think it is amazing the prices that dealers get for that
Sikhote-Alin stamp when someone could buy it directly from a dealer of
Russian stamps for a very small amount. The last I looked, it had a Scott
catalog value of maybe $1.00 or so and stamps are usually sold at a discount
from Scott.

-Walter Branch
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----- Original Message -----
From: "dean bessey" <deanbessey_at_yahoo.com>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Austria Will Issue Stamps with Meteorite
Powder


> As somebody who started a stamp approval service when
> I was 14 and has been a on and off stamp dealer (And
> all sorts of other types of collectibles) for a
> quarter century (Geez that makes me sound old) and
> whose best business course in university was marketing
> I think that this is a great idea with a lot of
> synergies.
> It will expose meteorites to millions of stamp
> collectors and if only one becomes interested in
> meteorites and decided to go desert hunting and finds
> a Carbonaceous of achondrite it will more than make up
> for the 19 kilos that was used. Also (Important for
> the post office trying to sell stamps to collectors)
> meteorite (And mineral collectors) people are a good
> source of customers as minerals is a very popular
> topic among stamp collectors. Remember a stamp dealer
> is at the munich show every year selling stamps
> showing minerals.
> But this promotion goes even further. The meteorite
> has been well studied as part of the sales promotion
> (You dont see that with many H4s from NWA nowadays)
> and the unused remains of it is on display at some
> museum in austria. This means that one of austria's
> museums is going to be getting free publicity amonst a
> very key target group of potential customers (Stamp
> collectors) - ie:visiters to the museum.
> This is an all round smart stamp issue that has a lot
> of positive aspects to it.
> Sincerely
> DEAN
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> --- MexicoDoug_at_aol.com wrote:
>
>> En un mensaje con fecha 03/10/2006 2:31:24 PM Mexico
>> Standard Time,
>> meteoritehunter_at_comcast.net escribe:
>>
>> << perhaps turn stamp collectors to meteorites >>
>>
>> HELLLLLPP !!!!!
>>
>> Come on Mike, why don't you just send them a few
>> kilograms of cutting
>> waste...no argument with you, though we could turn
>> everyone on to cloud 69 (1969 that
>> is, as in July 20) even more by grinding up your
>> moonrock and issuing Lunar
>> stamps and maybe get more money spent for Lunar
>> exploration without
>> cannabalizing everything else that is beautiful out
>> there. I could make another
>> suggestion ... for those of us who get beads and
>> dragons carved out of meteorites,
>> hearts and "S"'s for Superman, or even museum
>> pallasitic recognitions, or those
>> who just cut them up, save your powder in a can and
>> then sell it to
>> Austriapost's IPO as an untapped opportunity. That
>> way slices prices can come down a bit
>> and more profit can be realized and everyone is
>> happy, including the stamp
>> collectors and the strategic planners for the
>> privatization of the Austrian
>> postal service as they give ideas of the potential
>> value of the concession
>> properly run by MBA's and not government employees.
>> But don't don't stick an
>> innocent meteorite in the mortar and pestle if you
>> don't have to...or there will be
>> more language coming out of the SWMC that will be
>> disturbing.
>>
>> Just a thought, and just my own worthless opinion,
>> Doug
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