[meteorite-list] AD: FCM: Come, Play with Us! Wonderful Meteorite Jigsaws & Top Trumps !!

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 02:24:52 +0100
Message-ID: <005901cdea1a$4bec7790$e3c566b0$_at_de>

Dear Friends,

the FC Meteorite House had had such a really sweet idea, which will mellow
even the grumpiest cosmic codger and presents to you today for the first
time his:

Meteorite-Jigsaws!

A fun for the young, the young at heart and the old;
a fine gift, to transport your passion; also to lead the kids to meteorites;
certainly a collectible by its own;
a guarantor and a new playful way, to delve for many hours into the details
of a meteorite;
or to make it shorter:
Simply: amorevolous and wonderful!

The first jigsaw is

Muonionalusta

http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Puzzle001.jpg

Available either with 200 pieces
or - with that motif especially dodgy, promised!, - with 500 pieces!

The second jigsaw
isn't only artistic, but even philosophical, as it shows the ur-germ, the
ultimate ground of all being, therefore especially suitable for the
meteorite faddists -
a prodigious chondrule from a thin section in cross-polarized light:

Chondrule

http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Puzzle002.jpg

Again we made two degrees of difficulty: 200 and 500 pieces.


Topped off the affair gets by the Gardnos-Impactite-Jigsaw,
an excellent method, to point to oneself up the nature of brecciation,
which isn't however only valid down here on Earth, but on the minor planets,
the terrestrial planets and the asteroids - and therefore with the
meteorites - too.

Gardnos Impactite

http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Puzzle003.jpg

Of course available with 200 pieces and with 500 pieces too.


The prices for these wonderfine jigsaws are:

29.50$ for the 200-pieces-jigsaws

38.50$ for the 500-pieces-jigsaws.

postage for 1 jigsaw is ca. 4.50$ and for up to three 9$
(btw. a good opportunity to order with them the meteoritic ballpoint pen set
at $16.50 to save shipping costs).

Perhaps a remark,
Especially if the jigsaws are meant as gifts for kids - 200 pieces sounds in
the first instance not so much, but is with these motifs already quite
tricky;
500 pieces are rather something for the Jigsaw-Masters (especially in the
most prestigious challenge - solving it without using the image on the box -
you'll need days!).


The second part of our pleasurable advertisement regards
the meanwhile famous top trumps:

Meteorite Super Trump

Long ago already they became true classics in the European meteorite scene.
Whoever takes pride in himself as meteorite collector, had grasped one or
several of these decks of cards at the Munich or the Ensisheim fair.
(remember the photos of those always reporting from these events, where you
can find known and unknown faces avidly playing these cards).

http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Quartett_3.jpg

http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Quartett_4.jpg

http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Quartett_5.jpg

http://www.meteoritenhaus.de/img/Quartett_7.jpg


Unfortunately the Meteorite Super Trump was edited in a very limited number
and rapidly sold out.

Fortunately the FCM owns still a few remainders, therefore: Who missed out
then, is lucky and can still jump on his copy rrrrrright now
at - a matter of course - the same price like the had cost at that time.

The Meteorite Super Trump

Was issued in two qualities.

- the Player's Edition

Printed on professional Las Vegas deck cardboard
(the one with opaque barrier sheet, to avoid any kibitzing).
Hence so to say, that's the everyday version, which you use,
when the crotchety hunters on the backseats start to grouch, when finally
will we have arrived in the strewnfield??

That edition is prized at 17$ (currently only 2 left).

And the more luxurious

- Dealer's Premium edition

Printed on a little thicker cardboard with a minimally larger font, it is
even more sturdy
and therefore used in the dimly lit back rooms of the Kasbahs, where the
sinister obscurantists of the World Meteorite Collectors Black Market gamble
for real lunars and Martians until the white thread becomes distinct from
the black thread, drinking themselves with mint tea into diabetes (says the
NYT). ..
... which is also perfect for display, picture framed or as
placeholders in the meteorite cabinet, until the FCM will have organized the
respective meteorite for you.

That nobler edition costs 25$ (19 left in stock).


And finally a combo, the Player's edition for the daily use, the Dealer's
Premium as an exhibit for the showcase,
Is together: 40$


Hence,
for these wonderful ideas we ask firstly for your applause
and a Mexican wave the whole stadium through,

before you secondly bring these lovely games into your homes,

where to is now sending cordial greetings

The FC Meteorite House
Hamburg - Munich
A.Gren, M.Altmann, M.Kurschat, E.& V.
Received on Thu 03 Jan 2013 08:24:52 PM PST