[meteorite-list] Bonhams Auction Completed.

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:00:57 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <403552.20322.qm_at_web33105.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Darren,
I was on the phone live when the Fukang was up, it was
bid up to $1,750,000 in the room!
It did not meet reserve and did not sell, but it is my
understanding that offers are still pouring in and it
may sell tomorrow.
That is real money, not small change!
Michael Farmer
--- Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:43:17 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>
> > I am having my pieces picked up by a friend in NY
> and
> >shipped to me that way.
> >They sure seem to like to get every penny dont
> they?
> >It seems to have been a very good auction over all,
> >some things went cheaper than I would have thought,
> >but over all a stong showing. Add it up, hundreds
> of
> >thousands of $$$ sold in less than an hour, and
> >MILLIONS bid. Not bad.
>
> Looks like Fukang didn't sell.
>
>
http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2008/04/30/america/OUKWD-UK-AUCTION-DUNG.php
>
> NEW YORK: Some dinosaur dung was snapped up at
> auction in New York even as a 4.5
> billion year old meteorite which was supposed to top
> the sale went unsold.
>
> The two chunks of 130-million-year-old coprolite,
> otherwise known as fossilized
> dinosaur dung, fetched $960 (482 pounds) at Bonhams
> in New York on Wednesday,
> the auction house said.
>
> The Jurassic-era rocks were sold for more than
> double their maximum estimate,
> said spokeswoman Staci Smith.
>
> A 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite, on which a Chinese
> desert hiker habitually ate
> lunch before he discovered it was valuable, failed
> to meet the minimum reserve
> however.
>
> Bonhams had expected the space rock to sell for
> $2.25 million to $2.75 million.
>
> Smith said negotiations over the meteorite continued
> after the auction and that
> a deal could be struck in days.
>
> The owner of the meteorite, Marvin Kilgore, the
> curator at the University of
> Arizona's Southwest Meteorite Center, was mystified
> by the sale of the
> fossilized dung which is much more common than rocks
> that have fallen from
> space.
>
> "Some people want it on their shelves, I guess," he
> said.
>
> The dung was bought by a phone bidder which the
> auction house declined to
> identify.
>
> (Reporting by Timothy Gardner, editing by Sandra
> Maler)
>
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Received on Thu 01 May 2008 12:00:57 AM PDT