[meteorite-list] Ad - D'Orbigny angrite main mass for $225 per gram!

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 18:36:15 -0500
Message-ID: <e51421550905011636x4d1c9591pd9f552e97c7f9336_at_mail.gmail.com>

Good luck with the sale. What an amazing specimen.

If you can finance me, I will buy it. How does $500 down and $200 a
month for the next 60 years sound? ;) LOL

Just kidding. Seriously though, good luck finding an appropriate home
for that spectacular mass. :)

Best regards,

MikeG

On 5/1/09, edwinthompson at comcast.net <edwinthompson at comcast.net> wrote:
> .....OR BEST OFFER!
>
>
> Hello fellow list members. I understand that even though the price per gram
> for this amazing meteorite is low that the total amount is beyond many
> collector's budgets for a single specimen. Still, please check out the
> listing on EBay if you haven't already. The pictures are really fun to look
> at and one photograph shows an impressive vesicle that measures over one
> centimeter in diameter. Although not in this main mass fragment, there are
> vesicles in D'Orbigny that are over 2.5 centimeters in diameter! D'Orbigny
> also contains huge olivine clasts, smokey colored volcanic glass inclusions,
> vugs filled with beautiful augite crystals and a matrix filled with this
> porous crystalline structure and glass lined vesicles. Patrick and I are
> hoping that this specimen remains intact. There are several institutions
> showing an interest in acquiring this piece. It would be great to see this
> specimen makes it's way to a major public display. Please write off list to
> etmeteorites at hotmail.com
> if you have any questions about D'Orbigny.
>
> Thanks and have a great weekend,
>
> E.T.
>
>
> www.etmeteorites.com
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=200334816725&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT
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Received on Fri 01 May 2009 07:36:15 PM PDT