[meteorite-list] Bake Sale Juanchengs AD

[Martinh]

Hello All,

Well, all Jungcheng sets have been sold so sorry if you missed out.

I will be contacting the buyers now so if you put in a request, stay 
tuned for more information.

Cheers and thanks!

Martin




On Feb 10, 2005, at 7:56 AM, martinh at isu.edu wrote:

> Bake sale Juanchengs
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> Howdy folks,
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> This is an offer for you to get some wonderful small Juancheng 
> individuals with a story.
>
> While at the Tucson show, I stumbled upon a Chinese mineral dealer who 
> happened to have a few small Juancheng individuals. Turns out they 
> were given to him by a school teacher in China who had his students 
> search the strewnfield essentially as a fund-raising project for their 
> classroom, similar to a bake sale or car wash.
>
> The mineral dealer had one little individual sitting on a shelf. I 
> happened to notice it and inquire if there were more pieces. The 
> dealer, a very nice professional-looking man with weak English skills 
> said he had a few more…but where. He searched his room finally 
> locating the Juanchengs in small Ziploc bag buried in one of many 
> boxes stuffed under a table.
>
> The mineral dealer said that a friend of his who was a teacher thought 
> of the fund-raising meteorite search. In the end, after many hours of 
> searching, the students only found a
>  few hundred grams, most broken pieces and incomplete individuals. 
> Anyway, I wanted to support the students’ efforts since I was once a 
> classroom science teacher myself, and fund-raising is both important 
> and tedious.
>
> So I picked through the stones and bought a few grams of wonderful 
> tiny complete individuals. But then the dealer had no scale with which 
> to weigh them. He looked at me sheepishly and shrugged his shoulders 
> somewhat unsure what to do. I finally took the set of stones to Blaine 
> Reed’s room for weighing.
>
> So in a nutshell, I bought the stones to help out the students in 
> China. But I would now like to pass on some of the stones and the 
> story to interested collectors and teachers. I will be keeping a few 
> stones for my own teaching needs, but I have assembled five sets of 
> three complete individuals each. The combined weight for each set of 
> three individuals averages 5.5 grams total. Each set of three stones 
> is in a 2x2 inch box with a short version of the story prin
> ted on the back and a copy of story like it appears in this email.
>
> The price: only $35 per set, shipping included (which is well within 
> the normal retail of small individuals of Juancheng!) And these are 
> all 99-100 percent crusted individuals with wonderful form.
>
> Think of it. Everyone has Juancheng, but few have a story. For me, 
> what makes collecting fun are the stories, whether those of science, 
> the hunt, or human interest.
>
> So if you are interested, please email me for availability. Remember, 
> there are only 5 sets so time is of the essence if you want to add 
> Bake Sale Juanchengs to your collection.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Martin H
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