John, I am interested. However, you give no contact information and neither does your website. Please contact me directly at: mlbl...@cox.net Thank you, Michael Blood
> On February 6, 2021 at 1:33 PM Bigjohn Shea via Meteorite-list > <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > mailto:meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > wrote: > > > Dear Fellow Collectors, > Hope you are all well. > > If you like meteorites with incredible stories, I have one for you. A > 1.7g specimen of Ogi, Japan, available for your consideration. > > Some details from Oliver Farrington's, "The Worship and Folk-Lore of > Meteorites" > > "Ogi, Hizen, Japan. - Two stones which fell here, according to one > account, December 10, 1744, were used for more than 150 years as offerings > annually made in the temple in Ogi, to Shokujo on the festival of that > goddess the 7th day of the 7th month. The belief among the Japanese was that > the stones had fallen from the shores of the Silver River, Heavenly River, or > Milky Way, after they had been used by the goddess as weights to steady her > loom. One of these stones is now largely preserved in the British Museum." > > Please contact me for details and photo. > > Cheers, > John A. Shea, MD > IMCA 3295 > www.bigjohnmeteorites.com > ______________________________________________ > > Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the > Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > mailto:Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >
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