Looking at some of the big prices for small chips of rock from the auctions makes me wonder-- how much provenance do you bidders look for before you bid on a high-dollar item? Do you look for a "chain of possession" stretching back to the fall (or when the piece was cut from the fall) or is a collection card from an established collection enough, even if that card is years past the fall/cutting date? I ask because I, personally, would always wonder in the back of my mind if what is supposed to be X actually was X if there were gaps in it's history, at least for meteorites not distinctive enough to be visually recognizable as being "the real deal". ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
