Bob posted:
So what do you think these are? Sikhote shrapnel?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&category=3239&item=6530151721&rd=1
If it is, its selling at great prices that some of you should take advantage of.
Dear Bob and List:
I think what we're looking at here is actually a large Nantan fragment. I know it doesn't look like the Nantans we usually see. However, a few years ago -- while looking at similar pieces at the old Ramada Inn during the Tucson show -- I was told (in broken English) by a very nice Chinese gentleman that dynamite had been used to blow up one or more really big Nantans in China, and that these silvery shrapnel-like pieces were the result. If you look at another item that the seller is listing . . .
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B21215E0B
. . . it sure does look like one of those dynamited Nantans. Some of these pieces show the interior crystalline structure, and I think all or most of them have been acid cleaned and/or sandblasted. Not sure if the dynamite story is true, but that's what I was told at the time. Kind of interesting pieces (and cheap), but a little over-cleaned for my tastes.
BTW, I'd like to thank our friend Rob Wesel for turning me on to the makeashorterlink.com website. What a handy thing. Almost as good as that Babelfish translator : )
Sincerely,
Geoff N.
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