[meteorite-list] high-end collectors high-end meteorites andrareness

From: Stefan Ralew <stefan_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 16:52:41 +0200
Message-ID: <EA1E3489D2494702B89BDEDC3019F767_at_StefanPC>

I agree. If someone falls into the category "high end collector", then it
should be David Weir. And this has nothing to do with a bank account. I know
him as a real enthusiast, and his website is endless inspiration for many
other collectors!

On the other side, I don?t like the term "high end collector" at all.
Michael F. explained us already what it means, a collector with deep pockets
who buy expensive pieces. And what are the other 95+% of meteorite
collectors? Low end collectors who buy the "crap" (btw, another word which I
don?t like to hear in conjunction with meteorites) on Ebay??

Please don?t misunderstand me, it?s totally fine with me if wealthy people
buy expensive meteorites. I?m happy for them and I?m happy when I can serve
them with my service. I know that some of them donate material to
institutions, or make their impressive collections accessible to the public,
which I find very noble. What I don?t like is to sort people into categories
depending on their wealth. Btw, my clients are mostly the same after 15
years, I still sell to meteorite collectors and institutions, small and big
collectors alike. And it still works!

Cheers,
Stefan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephan Kambach via Meteorite-list"
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To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 10:16 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] high-end collectors high-end meteorites
andrareness


> Hello, All
>
> If I combined Michael Farmers and Greg Hupes writing up about high-end
> collectors and high-end meteorites,
> so I should come to the conclusion that dealers aiming know a days to
> collectors with big wallets.
> Regardless to the amount of money you can effort for collecting
> meteorites, for myself,
> the high-end collector is the one, who understand in deeper details what
> he is collecting.
> Means, before he can real enjoy it, he must crack his head by studying in
> a private or profesional way
> mineralogy, physics, (bio)chemistry and etc. . Otherwise, confrontated
> with the foolishness,
> he can only marveling with an open mouth, but the real enjoy comes be
> looking at a meteorite
> with the specialed (knowlege) view about what you are looking at.
> Collectors like David Weir for example buying the small samples, but they
> are the high-end collectors.
> Some companies or also some single rich peoples (or even the most) often
> have rudiment?r interest in meteorites
> but supporting the interest of the nature of an dealer ? that's a own
> class of high-ends.
>
> Last at least, something about lunar and martian meteorites. Meanwhile the
> amount of it rised up
> to huge amounts compare to some real rare space samples, for ex. the
> ungrouped cc's like NWA 5958 from Greg Hupe.
> A sample like this, unique by it's O-isotopes compared to the rest of all
> meteorites, provide an absolutely
> less amount of material compared for ex. to a NWA 5000, but comes in price
> much more efordable.
> Martians and Lunaites describe more a less a single parent body
> history/evolution but a CM2 like a Murchison,
> a Tagish Lake or CI spans with it's information through the rise of the
> solarsystem and
> in some way also beyond. Some of such CC's you find in between the 393
> CC's of the MetBull 101 to 103.
>
> My regards, Stephan Kambach
>
>
> PS. my special thanks to David Weir supporting all the real collectores
> for his well done work and
> also to the scientists, who let us, they one who is opend enough for it,
> to understand the value of the meteorites
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