[meteorite-list] New type of fake moldavite coming soon?

From: Armando Afonso <armandoafonso_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 20:19:19 +0100
Message-ID: <BF6F9E6CD4B24DE98CD68A8A72565071_at_ArmandoPC>

?Hydrofluoric acid can do the job.
AA



----- Original Message -----
From: "Yinan Wang" <veomega at gmail.com>
To: "Michael Gilmer" <meteoritemike at gmail.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; "tracy latimer"
<daistiho at hotmail.com>
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New type of fake moldavite coming soon?


I'm actually curious as to how they're being made. Can casting glass
be that detailed? Are they etched by hand? Or is there some sort of
air ablation system being used as the glass cools?

Or are they using giant rail guns to fire projectiles into sand to
artificially create moldavites :) ... jk.

- Yinan

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Gang,
>
> Yeah, this is not good news and let us hope that the ripple effects do
> not propagate widely into the collecting community. Hopefully going
> on the record here (and elsewhere) with the truth will at least
> mitigate the effects somewhat. I see that "Jolly Rancher"
> "apple-green" moldavite and I run the other way.
>
> Leon is indeed getting larger and let's hope the forgers don't make a
> pterodactyl or a brooch. ;)
>
> Best regards,
>
> MikeG
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> On 8/1/11, tracy latimer <daistiho at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've seen a lot of bad fakes on eBay. 98% of the time, the giveaway is
>> the
>> color -- the fakes are usually that horrible Jolly Rancher apple-green.
>> Often the striations are nonexistent or poorly formed as well. Maybe 10%
>> of
>> the sellers have what appears to be authentic Moldavite material. The
>> others are selling fakes; I suspect a lot of the woo-ish sellers are
>> merely
>> reselling the fakes that were palmed off on them without verification.
>>
>> The fakes are getting better, and "Leon's getting LARRRRGER!!!"
>>
>> Best!
>> Tracy Latimer
>>
>>> From: veomega at gmail.com
>>> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 12:15:01 -0500
>>> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>> Subject: [meteorite-list] New type of fake moldavite coming soon?
>>>
>>> My buddy Justin at The-Vug just put out a new article on
>>> Fakeminerals.com about a new type of fake moldavite that has been
>>> recently spotted in China:
>>>
>>> http://www.fakeminerals.com/?p=146
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if this is the material people are already familiar with,
>>> or if it is indeed a new type, but it's impressive looking.
>>>
>>> - Yinan
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