[meteorite-list] GPS [AD]

[Martin Altmann]

Mark,

"- I'm happy to make clear that the material I have listed cannot be stated
as being from the same source as "your" NWA 4766 and the other two LP"

So we are all happy again.

"- Selling strategies - I'll agree not to tell you how to price and 
market your goods, if you agree to reciprocate the favour."

Agreed, as anyway the collectors decide.

" I'm delighted that your specimens are much larger than mine."

That's not the point. 
>From a certain minuteness, it gets difficult to identify whether a stone
could be that what it should be.
I remember back, when we once purchased a lot of small stones from the NWA
1110 series, (from dealer, nomad, market or wherever),
a quarter of them were so tiny, that only under the microscope one could
see, that they were sandstone and a part of them simply wasn't identifiable
with 100% certitude, hence not suitable for sale.

But as you're an IMCA-member, I'm confident, that you know, what you're
doing.

Regards,
Martin


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Mark Crawford [mailto:mark at annasach.net] 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2007 23:49
An: Martin Altmann
Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] GPS [AD]

Martin,

I really hoped to avoid discussing this on-list, and have already 
replied privately to Jim.  However, since you appear question both my 
intelligence and my integrity:

- I'm happy to make clear that the material I have listed cannot be 
stated as being from the same source as "your" NWA 4766 and the other 
two LP.  By "source" I mean dealer, nomad, market or wherever the stones 
were procured.  I have no public view on whether or not they are all the 
same fall. Whatever.

- Selling strategies - I'll agree not to tell you how to price and 
market your goods, if you agree to reciprocate the favour.

- I'm very clear, and happy, about the provenance of my material.  I'm 
delighted that your specimens are much larger than mine.  I hope they 
give you as much pleasure as I derive from my own.

With best wishes,
Mark


Martin Altmann wrote:

>And I really doubt whether he knows the source of our NWA 4766.
>
>...and even more doubts I have, whether that selling strategy will work,
>to tell that that material has sold at 1500$/g and to price it at 5000$/g 
>:-?
>
>I hope the seller has more of the material - the crumbs are so tiny, that
at
>least I for myself, if I had only such sized specimens, certainly wouldn't
>dare, to judge, whether they could be paired to another stone.. you Jim?
>
>  
>