Count, List, The natural history museum in Vienna displays at least two irons with their names on their etched faces. Here are shots of them. I believe that if the Bella Roca is the main mass, the museum had acquired it by 1895. To me it looks like an etching resist was applied before the acid then removed. There are collectors and dealers with ties to the museum who could look into the history and mechanics of the process if enough of us were interested.
http://johnkashuba.com/Pages/Meteorite%20Pages/Topics/ViennaIrons.htm Regards, - John John Kashuba Ontario, California -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 6:20 PM To: Galactic Stone & Ironworks; JoshuaTreeMuseum Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Lest You Forget I don't know how that unattractive marking was put on that etched slab, but I'll bet it will come off. Then you'd have a nice specimen at a pretty fair price. I saw this piece, or another butchered up one for sale several months back. These look like what you would find at a roadside tourist trap along with the chain saw carved squirrels and t-shirts. Count Deiro IMCA 3536 -----Original Message----- >From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <[email protected]> >Sent: Mar 20, 2010 5:56 PM >To: JoshuaTreeMuseum <[email protected]> >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Lest You Forget > >Hi Phil and List, > >Now if he'd just put the weight, location found, and other pertinent >data on it, we'd have a really well labelled and documented piece. ;) > >Best regards, > >MikeG > > >On 3/20/10, JoshuaTreeMuseum <[email protected]> wrote: >> Just in case you forget what kind of meteorite slab you bought...... >> >> http://cgi.ebay.com/METEORITE-MUONIONALUSTA-ORIGINAL-POLISHED-SLAB-205-g_W0Q QitemZ160317882630QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2553b0c106 >> >> >> A little reminder. >> >> Phil Whitmer >> >> ______________________________________________ >> Visit the Archives at >> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> > > >-- >------------------------------------------------------------ >Mike Gilmer - Galactic Stone & Ironworks Meteorites >http://www.galactic-stone.com >http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone >------------------------------------------------------------ >______________________________________________ >Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >Meteorite-list mailing list >[email protected] >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
