[meteorite-list] BLACK FRIDAY POP QUIZ Answer

From: LITIG8NSHARK at aol.com <LITIG8NSHARK_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 14:59:49 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <2da09.2a2d5f59.3a240eb5_at_aol.com>

Good afternoon Folks,

About 10 years ago I bought a small specimen of Calcalong Creek from Rob
Eliot. I sold about a dozen .0005 to .002 gram specimens of this meteorite
on eBay for $400.00 each. As available lunar material was tougher to come
by back then, and given the rarity of Calcalong Creek, none of my
Buy-It-Now listings on eBay lasted any more than a few hours. Conservatively, the
sales price of those specimens ranged from $200,000/g to about $800,000/g.

I decided to add a new, small specimen of Calcalong Creek to my collection
just a couple of months ago and I paid approximately $250,000/g for that
specimen---and felt darned lucky to get it at all.

Best regards,

Paul Martyn
Savannah, GA

In a message dated 11/28/2010 2:43:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
meteoritemike at gmail.com writes:
Hi Stuart and List,

Questions like this can be tricky, depending on the information
sources available.

For example...

I once paid $100 for a 1mg speck of Sylacauga. That amounts to a
staggering $100,000/gram.

Even further....

I once traded for a 1mg speck of Lafayette. In the process of moving
the speck to another gemjar, the speck fractured into two pieces - one
larger, one smaller. I sold the smaller sub-speck for $100. I would
wager that the speck weighed less than 1/2 milligram. So the selling
price on that was about $200,000 per gram or more.

>From everything I have read or seen, $200K per gram exceeds any known
auction price or selling price for a meteorite (per gram).

Of course, I wasn't around back before the internet and during the
opening days of the Saharan gold rush when lunars and martians were
selling for astronomical prices. During those days, Calcalong Creek
was exceedingly-expensive. It is indeed possible that some intrepid
soul paid more than $200K/gram for a speck of it.

Best regards,

MikeG

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On 11/28/10, Stuart McDaniel <actionshooting at carolina.rr.com> wrote:
> Is it written somewhere that this IS the most expensive per gram??
Because
> internet searches turns up all different ones as "the most expensive
ever".
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Alan
> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 1:50 PM
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: [meteorite-list] BLACK FRIDAY POP QUIZ Answer
>
> Hello Listers,
>
> The answer and winner to the Black Friday Pop Quiz is Calcalong Creek and
> the winner is Ty. Thank all for submitting your answers.
>
>
> Shawn Alan
> IMCA 1633
> eBaystore
> http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html
>
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> [meteorite-list] BLACK FRIDAY POP QUIZ
> Shawn Alan photophlow at yahoo.com
> Fri Nov 26 18:43:21 EST 2010
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> Hello Listers,
>
> I have a special edition Black Friday Pop Quiz.
>
> The name of the game, be the 10Th Listers to email me off the list with
the
> correct answer and you will win a 142mg Abee meteorite.
>
> Question:
>
> Please tell me the most expensive meteorite per gram is?
>
> Shawn Alan
> IMCA 1633
> eBaystore
> http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html
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