Which IMCA member is putting this oddball chunk o' rock up for sale? There
have been instances in the past where logos (Square Trade comes to mind)
have been hijacked to lend authenticity where none exists. Maybe some
enterprising seller did that to the IMCA logo, and we should make sure the
Hello all,
Take 3 deep breaths everybody...
This Jackstaw guy, also known as Derik Bowers, has been buying and selling
real meteorites for a couple years now. I've bought a couple pieces from him
myself.
I've seen this native iron for sale from him many times before. I never
thought he was
. Nothing more.
Mike Farmer
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Hello all,
Take 3 deep breaths everybody
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I have to agree, I looked at the auction, NOWHERE does it say that it is a
meteorite. It describes the material accurately, and says
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If you read you can tell that
this was probably once thought to be a meteorite...but it was tested and
confirmed not to be.
Well, I CAN read, thank you very much, John. ;-)
Eliminating all text having nothing to do with authenticity, it says the following "HAD IT
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If you read you can tell that this was probably once thought
to be a meteorite...but it was tested and confirmed not to be.
Well, I CAN read, thank you very much,
John
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Hello Mike, John and list, I think he should of made it a little more clear
that it is not a meteorite. To me he was kind of vague!
It looks clear to me that it was deliberately written vague in order to
Ok, I agree with this much, if he is a member of the IMCA, then he should put into words that it is NOT a meteorite.
The auction has now closed, and it was won (for $1.25 !) by a gentleman I recognize, as he has bought many meteorites from me, and many dealers I know, in the past. I'd be
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Hello List, I have to stand with Gregory on this one. Mike Farmer said
I have to agree, I looked at the auction, NOWHERE does it say that it is
a
meteorite
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Hello Mike, John and list, I think he should of made
Dear list,
I agree with John that this is not a case of an IMCA member trying to
sell a meteorwrong as a meteorite. He calls it an iron rock and
meteorite-looking, and if I were a bidder I would not believe I was
bidding on a meteorite,
To protect those who might believe they were bidding on a
Sometime later, the seller ran an auction for a 0.64g slice of
Shirokovsky. Although official word had not yet come down on this
material, I wrote to the seller and told him it was not looking good for
this material being meteoritic
hmm, but why Shirokovsky is not a meteorite ? This looks
PolandMet wrote:
hmm, but why Shirokovsky is not a meteorite ? This looks like 101%
pallasite
Hi Marcin and list:
That's why:
http://www.meteoriticalsociety.org/bulletin/shirokovsky.pdf
Peter
Charlie:
he states that he is selling "as is", which tells me this IMCA member [Shirokovsky] knew exactly what he was doing: selling a meteorwrong as a meteorite.[snip]...this seller seems clearly to have pulled a fast one with the buyer
being none the wiser, whereas the IMCA member selling
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