Hi Mike and all,
There are speck collections, micro collections, macro collections, and
on up. I tend to collect in the 200 gram range myself but have
specimens as large as 20kg range and small as 1/4 gram.
Someone could have a speck collection totaling 400 to 800. It would be
harder to collect the same in the other ranges and as the collection
size goes up. To me a collection piece has to be large enough to be
scientifically valuable.
Bottom line, someone could boast the most collection pieces and maybe
only have 50 or 60 grams total weight. A collection like some that you
mentioned could weigh in at several thousand pounds or well over
1,500,000 grams.
I'd define collections by size type and number of specimens in them for
a more realistic composition count on collections. Just my thinking.
--AL Mitterling
Quoting Michael Gilmer <[email protected]>:
Hi List,
This is a curiosity-based question. I know many list members have
outstanding and enviable collections. The Hupes, Farmer,
Cottingham,
Strope, and Kilgore come to mind as dealers/collectors who have
insane
collections of meteorites that most collectors would drool over.
Main
masses, football-sized planetaries, coffee-table sized slabs of
pallasite, and historical rarities populate many high-end
collections.
But, what I am curious about is - number of localities. What
collector has the most localities represented in their collection?
This number could include sub-gram micros, so I am thinking that
the
"biggest" collection (in terms of localities and not specimen size)
might not belong to one of the obvious heavyweights we would
expect.
If there was a leaderboard for number of localities, who would be
sitting on top of that list?
Using the EOM website as a rough guide, it seems that Gerald
Armstrong
has an impressive catalog of localities. But not every major
collector uses the EOM, so who is top dog?
For the record, my own collection numbers about 80 localities.
This
number fluctuates frequently because my collection has a high
turnover
rate, and I have had to sell off my entire collection three times
to
pay bills. My locality count has dipped as low as 10 and peaked as
high as 130. Of course, this is small potatoes. LOL.
Best regards,
MikeG
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