I just checked the Bonhams and Butterfields website and results are not
ready yet. Here is a link. I have no idea how quickly results are posted.
http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=USA&screen=ResultsXML&iSaleNo=15648
Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Hupe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Adam" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Just how Willamette is it?
Any news on how much these items are selling for?
Adam
--- Darren Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Don't settle for partial Willametteness!
http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/autocodes/countries/united-states-america/meteorite-auction-underway-$1157767.htm
Meteorite auction underway
Sunday, 28 Oct 2007 18:25
Some of the universe's most expensive rocks are
going under the hammer in the
United States today.
Bonhams and Butterfields of New York are hosting the
auction of
out-of-this-world objects, some of which are
expected to sell for millions of
dollars.
Among the items on offer at the Historic Meteorites
and Associated Americana
sale is a 1,400lb Brenham meteorite with naturally
occurring gemstones, the
Claxton Mailbox meteorite whose "special delivery"
made quite a dent and other
specimens from the Moon and Mars.
Bonhams' Ed Beardsley said: "It is a great privilege
to host the first auction
ever devoted to meteorites, and we could not be more
thrilled given the
spectacular offerings included in this sale."
The top attraction, however, is the missing section
of the extremely Willamette
meteorite which sits - without its missing section -
in the American Museum of
Natural History.
This 30lb section has an estimated value of up to
$1.3 million (£0.63 million).
Slivers of the rock have sold at auction before at
prices exceeding five times
the value of their equivalent weight in gold.
Bovine fans with lesser spending power may be
interested in a chunk of the only
known fatal meteorite, which killed a Venezuelan
cow. This is valued at as
little as $3,000 (£1,461).
"This could well be the first and last of such
sales-you just can't top this,"
Darryl Pitt of the Macovich Collection commented.
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