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

From: Greg Hupe <gmhupe_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 10:05:38 -0400
Message-ID: <332226E4F20840C6BD533A94E47C4FA1_at_Gregor>

Very well written and thought out, Stephan!

I would like to add that I cater to all levels of collecting, anywhere from
the tiniest of fragments to trying to preserve the largest of main masses
and end pieces or complete slices when I can. At great sacrifice to
financial gain I have let go large, complete slices and main masses at a
fraction of what I could have if I chopped them down and maximized the
per-gram retail value I could have realized at market.

The greatest 'value' I can think of is knowing the meteorite I helped
preserve can be studied and appreciated for centuries to come. The other
value I gain from all that I do is meeting fantastic people, scientists and
incredibly brilliant innovators who are changing the way we live here on
earth and possibly in space. While working with meteorites you never know
where your life path will lead you...

Best Regards,
Greg

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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephan Kambach via Meteorite-list
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 4:16 AM
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
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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