[meteorite-list] Christie's Meteorite Auction

From: Raremeteorites <raremeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 11:22:24 -0700
Message-ID: <ECFBBABF86624387BCE858AFADD72C4E_at_HPDESKTOP>

The price on the ordinary chondrite that realized USD $105,939.00 should be
.68/gram not 6.81/gram. I missed a zero while doing the calculation.

Adam


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From: "Raremeteorites" <raremeteorites at centurylink.net>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 11:15 AM
Subject: Christie's Meteorite Auction


> Wow, after following this auction I was surprised.
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> http://www.christies.com/results
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> The top items were a 434 gram Seymcham Pallasites sphere that sold for an
> amazing USD $303.08/gram ($131,535.00) followed by a NWA 155 kilogram, H6
> ordinary chondrite that realized USD $6.81/gram ($105,939.00)
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> I believe the top price per gram honor went to a 6.43 gram NWA 8306 Lunar
> Meteorite which realized USD $2777.34/gram ($17,775.00)
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> In total, the entire auction only realized USD $820,895.41 with most key
> pieces failing to sell. I thought for sure somebody would pick up the
> Zagami Martian Meteorite Main Mass which seemed reasonably priced to me at
> around USD $250.00/gram, especially when a Pallasite that normally sells
> for around $5.00/gram realized over USD $300.00/gram if the auction
> results are not in error and the sale is completed.
>
> Perhaps prospective buyers were not educated properly to the importance of
> some of these pieces or the venue was improper. In any case, the results
> were very surprising and unexpected to me since I have sold much more than
> the entire auction amount over the years on eBay.
>
> Adam
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> On Apr 20, 2016, at 12:08 AM, Anne Black <impactika at aol.com> wrote:
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>> Thank you Darryl.
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>> But how do we see the hammer price on all those pieces?
>> Will Christie publish those prices? and where?
>> Thanks.
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>> Anne M. Black
>> www.IMPACTIKA.com
>> IMPACTIKA at aol.com
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Darryl Pitt via Meteorite-list
>> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> To: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Tue, Apr 19, 2016 4:25 pm
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] REMINDER: Christie's Auction Tomorrow
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>> Hi,
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>> CHRISTIE'S Auction Tomorrow in London. 2.30p / (GMT+1) Catalog ?
>> http://bit.ly/23DlL8D
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>> It's worth noting...
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>> ? Several lots have no reserve;
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>> ? There is a benefit to those paying in US dollars. Due to currency
>> fluctuations, CHRISTIE'S current USD auction estimates are about 8% lower
>> than those printed in the catalogue. To track the current exchange
>> estimates, go to the CHRISTIE'S website http://bit.ly/1qp6Osq and look at
>> the ?grid view? where the real-time dollar amounts can be compared with
>> those in the downloadable e-catalogue?which, again, can be seen here:
>> http://bit.ly/23DlL8D
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>> Best of luck,
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>> Darryl
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Received on Wed 20 Apr 2016 02:22:24 PM PDT