[meteorite-list] high-end collectors high-end meteorites and rareness

[Michael Farmer]

I agree, I love meteorites, and I am obsessed with them. However I have bills to pay and since meteorites are my only source of income for the most part, I must make sales. I outlay tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars sometimes on single purchases. Sadly the bills bust be paid and borrowed money requires repayment. So please don't mistake a discussion about the state of the market, where this discussion started, as some sort of discussion about the goals of meteorite collection, that's a completely different subject. 
When I fly around the world undertaking large meteorite chases or hunting expeditions, my credit cards get run to the max sometimes. Those real expensive trips must be paid for. That requires sales. I am merely stating that the $50,000 credit card bills can't be paid with $.99 cent eBay auctions. 

Michael Farmer 



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> On Jun 2, 2015, at 1:16 AM, Stephan Kambach via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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