Greetings, I did a lot of business with David New and always enjoyed talking with him. I still have a lot of specimens in my collection and preserved his info cards. As I go through my collection I will probably thin down pieces and put David's card back with his specimen and offer those for sale in the future.
You are right Greg, there use to be a lot of trust between the few dealers and a limited number of collectors. I can remember Compuserve and the astronomy forum. I met Joseph Murakami there and we started perhaps one of the first meteorite forums. The Sysop allow us a place on the astroforum to talk meteorites. I think Bernd was also on there as I had downloaded some information he put out for meteorites. Before this time I did a lot of letter writing to dealers asking for sales lists as there was so little information to read about meteorites. --AL Mitterling Mitterling Meteorites On 7/20/21, Gregory Shanos via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> wrote: > > > A David NewStory > > by Gregory T. Shanos > > > > On January 2, 1990 I received a package from noted meteoritedealer David > New. I did not rememberordering a meteorite and proceeded toopen the > package. I was immediately elated, screaming and jumpingfor joy! To my > surprise it was a 4.6gram fragment with fusion crust of the Murray CM2 > carbonaceous chondrite whichfell on September 20, 1950 in Calloway County, > Kentucky. Iimmediately called David New and thanked him for the > specimen. I said “the check is in the mail”. Mr. New laughed and said I > knew you wouldlike it. David New stated “when I obtained the meteorite I > immediatelythought of you since you have a passion for carbonaceous > chondrites. I did not add it to the catalog and instead immediatelymailed > the specimen out to you.” Thesewere the days before the internet where > there was much trust between a dealerand their respective collector. The > dealers even knew the specialized typesof meteorites their collectors > preferred. This is one of my most prized meteoritessince I never ordered > it, the meteorite arrived serendipitously! The Murray CM2 is similar to > the MurchisonCM2 with respect to organic compounds including > extraterrestrially produced.amino acids. > > > > > Fragment 4.6gram measuring 22mm x 19mm x5mm > > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list