[meteorite-list] Montrose Meteorites / Steve Curry

From: Marc Fries <mfries8_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:34:09 -0700
Message-ID: <4E5D5751.9040604_at_hotmail.com>

I had a similar thing happen. I was in Montrose, Colorado recently and
visited a small rock shop. The owner showed me an iron "from the fall
that happened here", as he put it. Turns out Curry had given (or sold?)
it to him to get him interested in meteorites then tried to sell him his
"meteorite collection". The shop owner told him he'd think about it, and
Curry contacted him later with an even higher price for his "valuable
meteorites". The shop owner looked Curry up online, found a slew of
negative comments about him, and refused to purchase the "meteorites".
So at least one shop owner wasn't fooled - the one who did some research
online before shelling out money.

Cheers,
Marc Fries


On 8/30/11 6:22 AM, Walter L. Newton wrote:
> Just a few weeks ago, the family and I took a quick 4 day trip to
> Albuquerque NM, Aztec NM and the Four Corners region of Colorado, for a
> little ruins, rocks and state parks. On the way home, we stopped at a small
> general store/rock shop in Cimarron Colorado, and the woman there had 3
> pieces of this "Montrose Iron" with certificates of authenticity from Steve
> Curry. On line, I also found a gift shop in Grand Junction selling some of
> his "meteorites." It looks like Curry is trying to saturate the Western Slop
> of Colorado with his junk. I tried to tell the woman in Cimarron that these
> were fake, but she just complained to me that "these are out of your price
> range, you wouldn't be able to afford them." And I emailed the shop in Grand
> Junction, they never responded to my email. This Curry Crap (tm) is just
> tainting the meteorite market, and the effect will snowball to honest
> dealers and collectors and the general public who are going to get burnt.
> Too bad.
>
> Walter L. Newton
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