Gorgeous stone! Wish I could put that on display in my room! Graham, that seems like buried treasure to me! It looks like it was worth the effort.
[Erik] > Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:38:12 +0000 > From: ensorama...@ntlworld.com > To: meteoritefin...@yahoo.com > CC: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] A Riot of over 300 regmaglypts! > > Robert, > > Thanks...I think it is always a difficult decision knowing what to do with a > new acquisition. Do you restore, preserve, cut etc etc. This was purchased > with the view to cleaning and is not likely to be anything but a very > weathered ordinary chondrite but had such aesthetic potential. With some > pieces it would be sacrilege to even think of cleaning off their > characteristic natural patina, or cutting into oriented flowing crust. Others > need delicate preservation to stop them ending up as a pile of rust but > without changing their appearance or are such precious material that even > touching with a slightly greasy finger would be wrong. > > I find the whole business of curating a collection quite fascinating. > > Regards, > > Graham > > > > > ---- "meteoritefin...@yahoo.com" <meteoritefin...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Graham, >> >> I think you absolutely did the right thing. Very nicely done, and a gorgeous >> stone! >> >> Congrats, >> Robert Woolard >> >> >> On Jan 25, 2010, at 7:16 PM, <ensorama...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> It has taken many hours slowly removing the caliche without removing >> remnant crust or creating 'false' regmaglypts. >> >> I know some purists would rather see specimens in their 'found' state, but I >> just couldn't resist trying to bring this ugly duckling back to life. >> >> http://s760.photobucket.com/albums/xx244/Graham-Ensor/8kgUNWA/ >> >> Graham, Nr Barwell, UK >> ______________________________________________ >> Visit the Archives at >> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> >> >> >> > > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
