[meteorite-list] 1996-2016 meteorite collectors / dealers

From: Anne Black <impactika_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 14:19:40 -0500
Message-ID: <151ea08244b-4ad4-b216_at_webprd-m77.mail.aol.com>

Yes Paul,

There were very few of us when I opened my website sometime in the summer of 1998. And Ebay had maybe a dozen meteorites.
I had been working with Alain Carion for at least 10 years before that, got to know Robert Haag, David New,...., but that is when I decided to strike out on my own. It has been a very interesting journey.


Anne M. Black
www.IMPACTIKA.com
IMPACTIKA at aol.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Harris via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
To: J Sinclair <john at meteoriteusa.com>; Meteorite List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Mon, Dec 28, 2015 10:56 am
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] 1996-2016 meteorite collectors / dealers

Hi John,

Jim and I were active before this but '95 & '96 is when the Internet
started taking off and the first meteorite websites were born. I think
Eric Twelker was the first with The Meteorite Marketplace.

Can't believe 2016 will be 20 years...

Paul



On 12/27/2015 5:11 PM, J Sinclair via Meteorite-list wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> 20 years.
>
> I noticed while looking at Matt Morgan's web site, he writes
> "established in 1996"
> The Meteorite Exchange site says "Impacting the Meteorite World Since 1996"
>
> Did anyone else start collecting in '96. If not then... when? and why?
> Many dealers and collectors were active before '96 and many more after.
>
> In August 1996 I read on the front page of the local NC (Greensboro
> Daily News) newspaper that NASA had found a possible life form in a
> Martian meteorite found in Antarctica - Allan Hills 84001. This was
> announcing there was life elsewhere in the Universe.
>
> I figured people would want meteorites. I was already selling gems and
> minerals at shows and had seen meteorites for sale in Tucson and
> Denver. I had meteorites before the end of the year. The fist ones
> were mailed from a dealer in Mexico - Tolucas, then Gibeon from the
> S.African dealers Karl and Clive. Next was Esquel from Bob Haag. I
> nearly sold out the first show I offered meteorites.
>
> It was ALH 84001 that started it for me. How about the rest of you?
>
> See you in Tucson.
>
> John
> MeteoriteUSA.com
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