This is the future....makes total sense. ======
BTW, immediately following this past Sunday's auction I visited a friend who was ill and just returned to NYC---and didn't have a chance to write to the following: a superb 8.24g specimen of Mayo Belwa (aubrite/fall) from The Natural History Museum (London) did not sell. It did not even achieve a bid of $110/gram---including buyer's commission---and I can promise it will sell for far more in the future. As I've long said, there is always a deal lurking at the traditional Natural History auctions. All the best / Darryl On Jun 15, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Blaine Reed wrote: > Hi folks, > > I may have an answer to help sort out fakes without the cutting and etching. > > I have enough experience with my XRF to easily sort out fake stuff from real > meteorite (unfortunately, I have not yet had the time to piece together > enough data to tell what exact kind of meteorite the item in question may be > - that has turned out to be a far bigger job than I first anticipated). > > For those of you that want this done, I would be happy to run samples for $10 > plus return postage. At this point I would simply be able to tell you if the > sample is good or not (I probably would throw in a list of the major elements > anyway), hence the "cheap" price. At this point, I am only attempting to > cover my costs (X-ray tube wear, expense of trip to PO) not make a profit (I > will be probably charging closer to $45 when i finally get my act together, > but that would include a full report that has a picture of the sample, color > graphs of the X-ray spectra returns, list of elements, etc). > > Not really trying to advertise, but thought that this may be a functional > alternative to cutting and etching. > > Blaine Reed > P.O. Box 1141 > Delta, CO 81416 > (970) 874-1487 > > --- On Wed, 6/15/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: [IMCA] Fake Nantan :o( > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 8:39 AM > > > Hi Anne, I just got word tonight that a Nantan that I sold around a year > ago, turned out to be a fake :o( The buyer was told by many that it didn't > look real. So he sliced it. It had hole's and carbon looking matrix inside. > It had a strong attraction to a magnet but the matrix didn't look like iron, > it was heavy as such. If any remember seeing it, it looked like a potato. I > bought it for my collection. I replaced it with a 7.5 kg piece, then I sold > the smaller one in good faith. I'm refunding the buyer's money. Now I'm > looking at the other's I have... This could be costly to me if they are also > fake. I'm halting sales till I slice and etch them... I'd rather lose the > money then know that I sold someone a fake. Knowing it's out there in a > collection, from me would hurt and set heavy on me, a lot more than losing > the money :o( > > I wish you all the best at the Ensisheim show. One of these day's I'll get > over there... > > Best wishes, jim > > Jim Shorten > IMCA 6204 > Tombstone, AZ > _____________________________________________________________ > 06-14-2011 (email 2) > not only one~~ I saw many similar pieces. > they are so cheap~~ I did not buy from them, but instead buying from you, > because I do not trust those seller in China. > Now, I know all those are fake~~ > I saw Gibeon look like potato shape, but just feel differently. Same 2 kg, > they feel much heavier~~ > The skin structure is totally different too. > Regards > Albert > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 06-15-2011 (email 3) > sure, I will sent it back to you, no problem. > if you have the same shape, chances are you will get the fake one. > Now, I realized, iron meteorite will not have this kind of crust~~ > check Gibeon, Canyon Diablo, or Sikhote. You just will not be able to find > this shape with no flawline at all~~ > Let me know your address. It will take $9.00 or so for shipping. > Thank you very much for taken care of this. > Regards > Albert > > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > IMCA mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.imcamail.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/imca > _______________________________________________ > IMCA mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.imcamail.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/imca ______________________________________________ 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
