[meteorite-list] Your first meteorite thin-sections

From: al mitt <almitt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:03:22 -0400
Message-ID: <93D606A0612D4A47AA29796B9BCCF712_at_StarmanPC>

Hi Alex and all,

I used to carry thin-sections in my inventory and often had them listed in
my color catalogs. I sold hundreds of them over time and was one of the few
dealers that did. What made my sections and David New's sections better were
their quality compared to a number of other section makers.

Section making is an art and high quality sections are a lot better than
some with less than perfect glass, ragged rectangular shape and uniform
thickness. Anne Black carries high quality sections and one of the good
sources in my opinion and there are some others. Best!

--AL Mitterling


----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexander Seidel" <gsac at gmx.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 7:03 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Your first meteorite thin-sections


> Hi Bob and list,
>
> my earliest interest in collecting thin sections dates back to the summer
> of 1992, when I visited David New and his wife at their home in Anacortes,
> Washington. David, one of the grandmasters of the scene, had a meteorite
> business since the Nineteenfiftees, and had just begun offering thin
> sections on his sales lists may be a year or two before this visit, so he
> showed me a bunch of his slides while I was there. I bought a "Zagami"
> slide from him in 1993 which in fact was the starter for my own collection
> of thin sections, most of which originate from a high class thin section
> maker who prefers to stay unnamed in public - and I won?t break the rule
> here.
>
> Thin sections are fantastic to view and learn from especially if you own a
> microscope with polarizing filters. They are small, so they don?t occupy
> too much room in your collection, they don?t rust away :-), and they do
> nothing but open a cosmos of beauty, miracles and finally knowledge to
> those who study them, especially under cross-polarized conditions. There
> is no final classification of a new meteorite in the MetBull without the
> experts looking at and analyzing an uncovered thin section. Thin sections
> are like little jewels, in a sense... And you will soon find the right
> dealers for them if you search the internet, unless you already know them.
>
> Alex
> Berlin/Germany
Received on Sun 27 Jun 2010 10:03:22 AM PDT