[meteorite-list] Auction at Bonhams on April 30 in New York.

From: Mark Grossman <markig_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 10:36:07 -0400
Message-ID: <000501c898bc$b74c3e80$6501a8c0_at_QED>

I've bid on several items - autograph letters of scientists - in auctions
overseas (the Netherlands and Australia), and it's similar to the rules to
follow with meteorite or any other dealers - know who you are dealing with
and ask plenty of questions. In one Australian auction, I heard of the
problem with expensive shipping costs - that appears to be how many auction
houses make part of their money - they subcontract the shipping to an
expensive shipper - I obtained an estimate of the shipping costs before
bidding, and the final cost for shipping agreed with the quote. In another
auction in the Netherlands, I submitted an absentee bid, and won
significantly below my maximum bid.

I know Bonhams is a well-known acution house, although I have never bid with
them, but just because they are well known, doesn't mean that everything
will go smoothly.

Best thing, as Timothy mentions, is to inspect the merchandise before the
bidding if at all possible and get a quote for the shipping. If you can't
attend, don't bid too much and ask plenty of questions and for photos. If
you don't get satisfactory answwers, don't bid. The good acution houses
will accomodate your questions.

If I did not take the chance to bid on many of the overseas items sight
unseen, I wouldn't have some great items in my collection. So, you have to
way the costs and benefits.

Just my two cents.

Mark Grossman



----- Original Message -----
From: "mckinney trammell" <bigpineartifacts at yahoo.com>
To: "Timothy Heitz" <midwest at meteorman.org>; "Meteorite Mailing List"
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Auction at Bonhams on April 30 in New York.


avoid like plague! i did on of those absentee bids
and they shilled me right up to the penny. further
more, the shipping was EXTREME price AND... when i got
the items (shark teeth) they were SHORT!!! theyb LIED
about the length!!! i f you can't be there, you are
setting yourself up for dissaster
!!!
--- Timothy Heitz <midwest at meteorman.org> wrote:

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> Hello List,
>
> Does anyone know if any other meteorites are being
> offered?
>
>
> Tim Heitz
> Midwest Meteorite - http://www.meteorman.org/
>
>
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>
>
>
>
>
> Go to Google News
> Rare meteorite goes under hammer
> 10 hours ago
>
> A meteorite is expected to fetch ?500,000 at
> auction in New York this
> month.
>
> Weighing more than 925lbs, the object was
> discovered eight years ago in
> China's Xinjiang Uygar province.
>
> Its rare olivine crystals endured atmospheric and
> impact forces as it
> crashed down to Earth.
>
> Bonhams' Natural History Department director Thomas
> Lindgren said: "Less
> than 1% of all meteorites are pallasites, the most
> alluring of all
> meteorites due to their aesthetic appeal."
>
> Pallasites - meteorites composed of around 50%
> olivine and peridot crystals
> and 50% nickel-iron - are thought to be relics of
> forming planets.
>
> The Fukang meteorite will go under the hammer at
> Bonhams on April 30 in New
> York.
>
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