[meteorite-list] Zacatecas 1792

[Michael Fowler]

Hi Bernd,

There are only 2 people whose posts I read every time, no matter what  
the subject.  You are one and Sterling Webb is the other.

Thanks for forwarding the picture from Buchwald.  Perhaps you are  
being diplomatic in letting us form our own opinion as to whether the  
sample on ebay is similar to the photo in Buchwald?

However, what do you think of the written description that I excerpted  
in my original post?   " polycrystalline..... (with) no well defined  
widmanstatten pattern."
I've looked at a couple of photo's of Santa Rosa, to which Buchwald  
compares Zacatecas (1792)  and there is no comparison to the slice on  
ebay.

Perhaps we can find photos from major institutions to compare to,  
where there will be no doubt as to the provenance.  After all if most  
collectors bought from the same source and that source is incorrect,  
then pictures in collector hands will all be similarly in error.

Thanks,

Mike Fowler