[meteorite-list] Question for dealers re: displaying sold items

[Alexander Seidel]

Exactly, Martin! So it was, once upon a time...!
[Uncle] Alex


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> Datum: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:43:17 +0200
> Von: "Martin Altmann" <altmann at meteorite-martin.de>
> An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Question for dealers re: displaying sold items

> Uncle Alexander, where art thou?
> 
> You have to tell the old stories to the Youth,
> who doesn't want to bear the incredible hardship, to type for a minute an
> electric message into their newfangled apparatuses and to wait another
> minute for an answer, in acquiring a desired meteorite specimen.
> 
> Tell them from the days, where the collectors sat down, painting with the
> stylus a letter on real paper, putting it in an envelope, taking a walk to
> the post office,
> and where the happy ending, after that kind of conversation forth and
> back,
> eventuated after months with the find of the specimen in the letter box.
> 
> Tell them, how people spent only for making enquiries after a specimen and
> to come to terms for oversea-calls more than today a 3 pound Campo does
> cost.
> 
> Tell them the anecdotes, that collectors sometimes paid the flight for the
> finder, for him to come to show a stone to them.
> 
> Tell them, how the collectors travelled a thousand miles to the show, to
> visit two handful of rotten ordinary chondrites.
> 
> Meeeeeteorites!  Pieces of other worlds, of The Moon and Planet Mars!!
> 
> Uncle Alex, see them bluster with SUCH a material, as if they would have
> to
> wait a minute too long at the counter for receiving their burgers!
> 
> O tempora, o mores!
> 
> The World as Will and Ebay;
> Or Meteorites are Socks.
> 
> ;-)
> Martin
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
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