[meteorite-list] Question for dealers re: displaying sold items

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:43:17 +0200
Message-ID: <001a01cbf97c$29e38a70$7daa9f50$_at_de>

Uncle Alexander, where art thou?

You have to tell the old stories to the Youth,
who doesn't want to bear the incredible hardship, to type for a minute an
electric message into their newfangled apparatuses and to wait another
minute for an answer, in acquiring a desired meteorite specimen.

Tell them from the days, where the collectors sat down, painting with the
stylus a letter on real paper, putting it in an envelope, taking a walk to
the post office,
and where the happy ending, after that kind of conversation forth and back,
eventuated after months with the find of the specimen in the letter box.

Tell them, how people spent only for making enquiries after a specimen and
to come to terms for oversea-calls more than today a 3 pound Campo does
cost.

Tell them the anecdotes, that collectors sometimes paid the flight for the
finder, for him to come to show a stone to them.

Tell them, how the collectors travelled a thousand miles to the show, to
visit two handful of rotten ordinary chondrites.

Meeeeeteorites! Pieces of other worlds, of The Moon and Planet Mars!!

Uncle Alex, see them bluster with SUCH a material, as if they would have to
wait a minute too long at the counter for receiving their burgers!

O tempora, o mores!

The World as Will and Ebay;
Or Meteorites are Socks.

;-)
Martin


 
Received on Tue 12 Apr 2011 09:43:17 PM PDT