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Hi Howard and List,
I believe we snapped a few pictures right after the
first cut when we realized we were not dealing with an ordinary
meteorite. It was not very exciting looking on the outside
displaying only about 25% crust. Now that it has been cleaned the
intact portion of crust is pretty interesting. I will take some images of
the main mass and see if I can point out some areas of interest in a few
days.
All the best,
Adam
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Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 7:37
PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Ad - Weekly
Rare Material
Adam and Greg,
Wonderful looking pictures on ebay. Do you have a picture available for
us of the original mass?
Dear
List Members,
Thank you for a fun auction tonight. A lot of buyers
picked up some pretty
nice planetary specimens at bargain basement
prices. I wish we could have
these kind of auctions more often but they
are too costly for us.
As most of you already know this weeks rare
material is NWA 1877
(provisional), a so-called "Olivine Diogenite". It
is the most olivine-rich
yet found. NWA 1459 still holds the record for
being the most Iron and
Chromite-rich. I believe NWA 1459 is also the
freshest even though there is
some staining to the olivine crystals. NWA
1877 has some of the biggest
crystals I have seen meaning preparation was
a very serious undertaking.
The problem with these giant crystals is that
they have cleavage planes
meaning they are susceptible to breakage or
worse yet plucking during
preparation. We consulted a scientists and he
told us to use an optically
correct penetrant which worked very well
keeping this material together
during prep. Then all these pieces were
diamond lapped to 3500. The end
product is nice looking material that
resists breakage and deterioration.
We are starting these out at less
than a tenth of what NWA 1459 trades for.
We are doing this for the next
week only. The reason for the much lower
price is that we have more
weight to work with, we were able to acquire it a
much lower price and we
do not need to pay bonuses to our partners on this
specimen. Even though
this is the rarest class in private hands we felt a
lower introduction
price would get this material into more collections thus
generating more
interest. It seems to have worked as three of the eighteen
specimens have
already sold before I could finish this announcement.
Here is a link
to our eBay
auctions:
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/meteoritelab/
Wishing
everybody the best,
Adam Hupe
IMCA
2185
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