[meteorite-list] high-end collectors high-end meteorites andrareness

[Stefan Ralew]

I agree. If someone falls into the category "high end collector", then it 
should be David Weir. And this has nothing to do with a bank account. I know 
him as a real enthusiast, and his website is endless inspiration for many 
other collectors!

On the other side, I don´t like the term "high end collector" at all. 
Michael F. explained us already what it means, a collector with deep pockets 
who buy expensive pieces. And what are the other 95+% of meteorite 
collectors? Low end collectors who buy the "crap" (btw, another word which I 
don´t like to hear in conjunction with meteorites) on Ebay??

Please don´t misunderstand me, it´s totally fine with me if wealthy people 
buy expensive meteorites. I´m happy for them and I´m happy when I can serve 
them with my service. I know that some of them donate material to 
institutions, or make their impressive collections accessible to the public, 
which I find very noble. What I don´t like is to sort people into categories 
depending on their wealth. Btw, my clients are mostly the same after 15 
years, I still sell to meteorite collectors and institutions, small and big 
collectors alike. And it still works!

Cheers,
Stefan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephan Kambach via Meteorite-list" 
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 10:16 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] high-end collectors high-end meteorites 
andrareness


> Hello, All
>
> If I combined Michael Farmers and Greg Hupes writing up about high-end 
> collectors and high-end meteorites,
> so I should come to the conclusion that dealers aiming know a days to 
> collectors with big wallets.
> Regardless to the amount of money you can effort for collecting 
> meteorites, for myself,
> the high-end collector is the one, who understand in deeper details what 
> he is collecting.
> Means, before he can real enjoy it, he must crack his head by studying in 
> a private or profesional way
> mineralogy, physics, (bio)chemistry and etc. . Otherwise, confrontated 
> with the foolishness,
> he can only marveling with an open mouth, but the real enjoy comes be 
> looking at a meteorite
> with the specialed (knowlege) view about what you are looking at.
> Collectors like David Weir for example buying the small samples, but they 
> are the high-end collectors.
> Some companies or also some single rich peoples (or even the most) often 
> have rudimentär interest in meteorites
> but supporting the interest of the nature of an dealer – that's a own 
> class of high-ends.
>
> Last at least, something about lunar and martian meteorites. Meanwhile the 
> amount of it rised up
> to huge amounts compare to some real rare space samples, for ex. the 
> ungrouped cc's like NWA 5958 from Greg Hupe.
> A sample like this, unique by it's O-isotopes compared to the rest of all 
> meteorites, provide an absolutely
> less amount of material compared for ex. to a NWA 5000, but comes in price 
> much more efordable.
> Martians and Lunaites describe more a less a single parent body 
> history/evolution but a CM2 like a Murchison,
> a Tagish Lake or CI spans with it's information through the rise of the 
> solarsystem and
> in some way also beyond. Some of such CC's you find in between the 393 
> CC's of the MetBull 101 to 103.
>
> My regards,  Stephan Kambach
>
>
> PS. my special thanks to David Weir supporting all the real collectores 
> for his well done work and
> also to the scientists, who let us, they one who is opend enough for it, 
> to understand the value of the meteorites
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