[meteorite-list] William Barriere - Youth of Canada be warned!

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:19:24 +0200
Message-ID: <008501c8ecbe$596c72c0$177f2a59_at_name86d88d87e2>

Interesting, in which way?

Seems someone in the Chicago Field hasn't made his homework.
Chicago has such an important collection only, because they bought as start
all specimens, which the mightiest meteorite dealer in USA of his times
brought to the Columbian exhibition in 1893. Henry Ward, was his name.

In 1912 Chicago Field outbid the Smithonian and AMNH in New York,
and purchased dealer Ward's collection from his widow for inflation-adjusted
1.8 million USD.

And of course in the following decades they enlarged the collection also in
buying from dealers too.

At least they aren't as rotten as docteure Julia in the comic strip,
wangling innocent children out of their finds - cause I read, the Chicago
Field bought 2.7kg of Park Forest, paying to the finders 30k$.

Didn't follow that story, but wasn't that T-Rex, the main exhibit, which the
Field museum bought for 8 million or so, recovered by a dealers company too?
And Dinos are a much more sensible complex than meteorites.

Well and the famous instrument collection from the Adler Planetarium,
certainly items of a cultural heritage according the modern conception,
hence much more problematic than stones from space,
Max Adler bought naturally from a dealer, Anton Mensing.

It is and it always was the practise of all museums no matter which field of
collection they plough to amass their collections by donations, direct or
monetary ones, and by purchases from dealers.

So I'm asking, this dealer bashing and the call for - in the end one might
call it in extreme "expropriation" of owners or finders or dealers - a
relatively problematic intervention in the personal basic rights at least in
states under the rule of laws -
is this meanwhile commonplace or the opinion of a very few, whatever their
intention may be?

Martin



-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Rob Wesel [mailto:nakhladog at comcast.net]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2008 05:58
An: Martin Altmann
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] William Barriere - Youth of Canada be warned!

The very picture of Park Forest.

The Alder Planetarium and Chicago Field Museum warning the public about
"dealers"

The dealers riding in with fists full of cash.

Rob Wesel
http://www.nakhladogmeteorites.com
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