[meteorite-list] Does this NWA look familiar to anyone?

[joseph_town at att.net]

Darren,

If this dealer screwed you by omission you have ever right to beef, not much recourse other than that though. I just wonder why he advertised it as unclassified and sent it with an NWA 869 label. Maybe he is confused but I doubt it.

Bill


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net>
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:12:16 -0500, Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> >I've just bought what to me is a very interesting looking unclassified NWA 
> piece, and I was
> >wondering it looks distinctivly like any numbered NWA find to anyone-- in other 
> words, is it a piece
> >from a known find.  It has a very dark, possibly greenish matrix, brecciation, 
> and as far as I can
> >tell from the photos, it seem to have a low metal content.  I of course can 
> take much better photos
> >when it reaches me, but I was hoping it might jump out at someone.
> >
> >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6506068469
> 
> Update on this: before the piece arrived I was browsing Ebay and came across a 
> seller with several
> slices of "NWA 787" which looked very similar to my unknown piece.  I did a 
> quick Google search,
> though, and found that NWA 787 is a probable synonym for NWA 869.  
> 
> So the lot of pieces (I bought several other items from the seller at the same 
> time) arrived today,
> and the very card that came with it labeled it as NWA 869!  So I'm torn on this 
> issue.  While on the
> one hand it seems to me pretty dishonest by the seller to clearly call it 
> unclassified in the
> auction (possibly as an deliberate attempt to make it seem more unusual rather 
> than a simple
> mistake), on the other hand it still is a beautiful piece with significant flow 
> features and is
> probably well worth the slightly less than 50 cents per gram that I paid for it.  
> (Which is more
> than three times more than I have paid for NWA 869 in the past, but still 
> cheaper than the $3-ish
> per gram the other seller wanted for the similar "NWA 787".) 
> 
> Look at these scans I made of the piece now that I have it (actual piece not 
> quite as contrasty as
> scan makes it look).
> 
> http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/nwa869_orientedslice_top.jpg
> 
> http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/nwa869_orientedslice_bottom.jpg
> 
> So how would you handle this-- be upset with the seller for calling it 
> "unclassified" when it was
> NWA 869, or just be happy with the piece and let it slide?
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