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From: John Gwilliam <jkgdiver_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:56 2004
Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20020131112409.00994370_at_pop.primenet.com>

What a clever idea. I have just enough time before the Tucson Show to
produce a few of these maps. First I'll need to locate Farmer's house on a
map......then Haag's............Innsuites.......;-)

See you all there,

John


At 11:53 AM 1/31/02 -0500, FERNLEA4_at_aol.com wrote:
>Hi folks,
>I quite often receive emails and phone calls from people who are looking to
>buy a one-off meteorite for reasons other than building up a collection. Some
>of the proposed uses have been pretty weird and often unworkable, but the one
>that sticks in my mind the most was about 3 years ago from a lady in England
>you wanted to buy "a meteorite....any kind of small meteorite that I can heat
>up in a flame and use to burn through paper".
>I had to find out more, so I asked her what her plans were. Apparently, she
>wanted to take a map of London, heat up a small iron meteorite and place it
>on the site of London's Millenium Dome. I asked her if she was an artist and
>expected some kind of artistic reply, but she just said "Nope......I just
>don't like the Millenium Dome and it's concept".
>Okaaaay!!! I made a small sale and that was the end of it I thought. Until I
>saw this....... http://www.multiplestore.org/docs/parker.html
>
>It sounds crazy, but I notice that the "limited edition" has all sold out,
>and if the price of the meteorite map on eBay is anything to go by, she's
>done pretty well too.
>
>Curiouser and curiouser!
>
>Cheers,
>Rob E.
>http://fernlea.tripod.com/forsale.html
>Fernlea Meteorites,
>The Wynd,
>Off Dickson Lane,
>Milton of Balgonie,
>Fife. KY7 6PY
>United Kingdom
>Tel: +44-(0)1592-751563
>Fax: +44-(0)1592-751991
>Email: fernlea4_at_aol.com
>
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John Gwilliam Meteorites
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Received on Thu 31 Jan 2002 01:26:18 PM PST