It doesn't happen often, but it does. When KemKem (remember the thread about 2 months ago?) first became available, buyers were assured it was going to be catalogued 'real soon'. Then it came out that what was being sold as KemKem was a jumble of several finds mixed together, and that most likely the original dealers who made the trip to Morocco had been sold a bill of goods. KemKem is now mainly a meteoric curiosity, and not worth as much as it might have been if it were a single new documented find.
I know I have bought one purported Canadian meteorite that, when it arrived, turned out to be a piece of slag; I kept it as a cautionary reminder. I probably have a couple other meteorites that aren't all they are cracked up to be, but since I mainly collect micros, determining that definitively is nearly impossible. After seeing how difficult provenance can be to confirm, I keep as much of my documentation as possible; if I don't have a specimen card or bill of sale from the seller, I print out the auction or page offering. As a collector, your main defenses are 'know your dealer', and 'document, document, document!' Tracy Latimer > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:13:30 +0200 > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] By Popular Demand................ > > I don't know, I haven't found my calmative pills yet... > For me it's like stepping in a parallel hypothetical universe. > > Could we please to try to quantify, > how often that happened, that someone was burnt, in buying a meteorite, > which was declared to be a different more historic locales? > > Then we would see more clearly, if there does exist that problem at all, > or whether it is of speculative character only. > _________________________________________________________________ Get in touch in an instant. Get Windows Live Messenger now. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_getintouch_042008 ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
