[meteorite-list] Fredricksburg TX Sold As Plymouth IN On eBay

From: JoshuaTreeMuseum <joshuatreemuseum_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:35:58 -0400
Message-ID: <22FB96F7AFCE44BBB9B4B2F7AB5FFAD0_at_ET>

Yeah I know it's beating a dead horse and all, but I think I've solved the
mystery of the fake Plymouth meteorite that was sold by Bob Evans on eBay
awhile back. Check out his Fredricksburg Tx he's been selling recently:
http://cgi.ebay.com/FREDERICKSBURG-Texas-Rare-Iron-Meteorite_W0QQitemZ250413725553QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item250413725553&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A1%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50
You can check his completed auctions to see pictures of other slices. They
go for around $10 a gram.

This looks very similar to what he was advertising on the list awhile back
as Plymouth. It was sold at $185 a gram.
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z126/tboswell/011.jpg?t=1241122839
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z126/tboswell/007.jpg?t=1241122892
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z126/tboswell/004.jpg?t=1241122937
Note the sloppy saw job on both slices. The Neumann lines on both specimens
look similar. Not that you would see Neumann lines like this on the
Plymouth, you would expect a Widdmanstatten pattern. Does anyone else think
these are pieces of the same meteorite? Anne? Anyone?

I know this issue is yesterday's cold mashed potatoes to most list members,
but not to those who trusted Bob as a fellow list member and were conned by
his misrepresentations.

In the words of the immortal Ernest T. Bass: Those who ain't lookin',
sometimes get tooken!

Phil Whitmer
Received on Thu 30 Apr 2009 04:35:58 PM PDT