BLAINE REED METEORITES- LIST 286 14MAY2026 RARE Orgueil CI1 for Sale

Orgueil, 162 years after it fell!

Blaine Reed Meteorites
P.O. Box 1141, Delta, CO 81416
Ph/fax (970) 874-1487
brmeteorites@yahoo.com

LIST 285 - May 14, 2026

Orgueil CI1
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ORGUEIL, France Carbonaceous chondrite (CI1). Fell May 14, 1864.
I just noticed that this is going the same day it fell, 162 years ago! As mentioned above, these samples consist of small fragments (from around small sand grain sized to a few mm sized, generally). The large lots are in glass vials. The small lots are in capsules. In the photo, I have the capsules lose, on their own. When I sell/ send any of these, I will put those capsules in a labeled magnifier box (exactly like the one that is up and to the right of the actual samples in the photo).
Fragments in either a capsule or glass vial.

CODE-
1Aa) .05 grams in a capsule - $125
1Bb) .10grams in a capsule - $250
1Cc) .25 grams in a capsule $600
1Dd) .50 grams in glass vial - $1100
1Ee) 1.0 grams in glass vial - $2200

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Dear Collectors,

  This is kind of an "off the cuff" offering. I really had not planned on doing this RARE FALL offering. I got this material from Alan Lang a couple decades ago. I think he got it as part of a trade he had done with the Paris Museum some years earlier. I did sell some of this material way back, but that has to have been something like 15 years or so ago. I have had it set aside since before the European mission to land on a comet (where the landing craft ended up on its side in a canyon against a steep cliff wall such that it could not collect any data). My hope was that whatever data that landing would have collected might have shown that this material (CI1 meteorites) was likely from comets. I watched the Meteoritical Society’s magazines and bulletins to see what, if anything, the orbiting craft was able to learn about this. I don’t recall seeing much of anything being reported about any possible ties between CI1s and comets for years (it takes considerable time between data collection and/or sample returns before useful information starts getting published about it). Then I heard about the “upcoming” sample returns from carbonaceous asteroids (one through Japan and the US’s Osirus Rex mission). So, decided to set this stuff back until hearing what was learned from those. So far, I have not heard much (but then, I am not currently receiving the Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences magazines). I may be jumping the gun here and may end up wishing I had not done this offering, but here it is (and at prices equal to or a little lower than what I sold this material for when I did offer it years ago. Not that it has become less interesting scientifically or otherwise but some collectors have likely already filled the “CI1” hole in their collections with an NWA find. As such, I suspect fewer people will feel the need to have a piece of this). This offering came about from someone contacting me wanting display worthy pieces of rare or unusual meteorites with the emphasis on historics and falls. This one checks all the boxes. Well, the historic, fall and rare ones. “Larger display worthy” maybe not so much. The potential buyer did end up passing on this as all of my “samples” were indeed just crumbs/ fragments in vials or capsules. They wanted a substantial single larger piece. I, once upon a time, did have such things. I originally had a really nice 2.8gram crusted fragment. However, I ended up watching it (on its own) breaking into smaller pieces. Getting frustrated at seeing this, I ended up selling those fragments while they still had good size to them. It has been my experience that (even in a very dry climate, maybe a sealed, air-tight desiccated container would yield different results) this material does seem to be prone to making itself into exactly the kind of pieces I am offering here today.

Shipping:

US:
They have indeed raised rates again recently (this is starting to feel like a weekly thing. Hello 1970’s inflation!!). The last small package I sent (a jewelry box in padded envelope) ran me $9. The specimen was a little larger than some (and certainly larger than any piece being offered here would be) so I’ll stick to $8 for this basic shipping for now. As for priority – it looks like they have raised the rates for a small flat-rate box to a bit over $14 now (!!!). I have not shipped anything this way since the rate increase but I did have a small flat-rate box package come in from Kansas a couple days ago and noticed the shipping cost was OVER $14! So, I’ll be at $14 for small flat-rate box shipping at this point.

OVERSEAS:
It has been some time since I have sent anything out of the US. With all the hassles and paperwork these days, that us something of a blessing. At this point, anything going overseas, I will need to look up shipping costs. However, the last packages I sent out of the US were about $17 for my basic small/ cheap specimen in a padded envelope to Canada and around $25 going to Europe. For small priority flat-rate boxes I think it was around $30 to Canada and around $45 to Europe.

BLAINE REED METEORITES= LIST 285 04MAY2026

Blaine Reed Meteorites
P.O. Box 1141, Delta, CO 81416
Ph/fax (970) 874-1487
brmeteorites@yahoo.com

LIST 285 - May 4, 2026

Dear Collectors
Here is my second “consigned things brought home from Tucson” list. Like the last one, these are all consigned items that (if not sold) be going back to the owner. This will not be done for at least a couple weeks, so do try and let me know if something here interests you, even if you will not be able to take/pay for it until later (it would be much more difficult for me to try and get a specimen back into my hands later.




GUADALUPE Y CALVO, Mexico: Hexahedrite (IIAB). Found 1971. Tkw = 58.67kg.
This is another piece of that meteorite that was used as a dog food bowl on a ranch in Mexico. They had large dogs that would drag off (and hide/lose) regular bowls. Of course, with the money they got from selling us this meteorite, they were able to come up with an alternate working solution (who knows? Maybe they are using a big hammered copper nugget these days). This piece came to Fredric through me some years ago (it has a copy of the old made on a physical typewrite info card I made when I first had this meteorite with it). This piece is most certainly one of the ones I sold for Jim Schwade some years ago. Somehow, I think Fredrick had something of a moisture issue in his house (even though it was in Tucson). Not sure if it was a hot tub, fish tank, or what but many of the iron meteorites I got from him show some rusting (see the NWA 11446 slices pictured in the last offering and the Seymchan below). For some reason, ALL of these things were completely uncoated. I know, some years ago, some people were saying “never coat a meteorite, that will just seal in moisture”. I call Bulldink on that. Dry the thing first and it won’t be a problem. I have done actual tests (uncoated, coated, waxed….) and found that coating a meteorite that has lots of iron in it a huge benefit. Of what I have gotten from Fredrick and or Timothy, this is, by far, the most oxidized. However, in this case, it has done something kind of amazing. The rust on this piece is thin (not the type that would promote further rusting risking the piece. More of a medium grade surface coating) but I decided to not clean this because of what this coating of oxidation has done. Somehow, this has brought out the Nuemann lines unlike ANY meteorite I have ever seen. I remember the cut and polished face that was on the meteorite when we bought it showed these really well. Unfortunately, that cut was oriented really awkward for further cutting so we cut it in a different direction. Unfortunately, that direction made the Nuemann lines barely visible no matter how much effort Marlin put into etching this stuff. Here, they are super strong and vibrant – the best I have ever seen. It would be really easy to polish off this oxide coating, if that is what someone really wants but no amount of fiddling with etching will bring this structure back to life after. I have spray coated this meteorite to keep it long term protected from further oxidation (but still, DON’T put it next to the shower, hot tub or fish tank PLEASE).
342.1 gram part slice – 120mm x 70mm x 5mm - $1400

NWA (8262): L-Melt breccia. Found 2013. Tkw = 1226grams.
Not all that long ago, this would have been a very expensive meteorite. I think the firsts of this type I saw were cat Mountain, AZ ($100 hundred +/gram I think) and Chico, New Mexico (a lot cheaper but you had to buy a pretty big piece to get both textures). This slice reminds me of a miniature Chico. About ¾ of the piece is highly shocked/ distorted chondritic material (that has a lot of vesicles in it – just like Chico) and the remaining ¼ is obvious flow melt material. Unlike Chico though, this is a nice hold in the palm of your hand complete slice. This piece is in a Riker type box (maybe not in the group photo though) that comes with a WWMeteorites.com label.
30.5 gram complete slice – 70mm x 45mm x 3mm - $95

NWA (17418). HED achondrite (Diogenite). Found 2024. Tkw = 4.88kg.
This is a nice end piece with a cool shape. This meteorite reminds me strongly of Dhofar (700). It has the same solid crystalline composition (looking kind of like a greenish Ureilite more than a Diogenite). Mixed in this are some dark (nearly black( inclusions (likely chromite). The back side is all clearly old exterior, no fresh breaks or modifications. There are a good number of black shiny areas that look like crust but I suspect that these are actually wind-polished chromites. This piece is in a Riker.
20.3 gram end piece – 55mm x 24mm x 10mm - $220

NWA (8022): Lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia). Found 2013. Tkw = 1226 grams.
This is a specimen that required me running it on the XRF to be sure it was not something that accidentally mislabeled. Nope, this is indeed a moon rock. However, it has something of a different look to it than most. To be honest, this looks a LOT like many eucrites/ howardites I have seen. This even has a lot of small brown spots scattered all through it (which are likely oxidized iron meteorite bits that got mixed into this from impacts while sitting on the moon) – making it look even more like an HED. This is a nice end piece that has some obvious smooth greenish gray fusion crust on the back. This Stephan specimen is very well priced and I have thought of buying it myself to cut up and offer to collectors as it has a different look to it than Lunars I have sold in the past.
71.0 gram end piece – 50mm x 23mm x 30mm - $1800

SEYMCHAN, Russia: (Pallasite). Found 1967.
This is actually one of the all iron pieces. Given its thickness, I suspect that this is one of the earlier sold specimens. When this stuff cfirst came out, the Russians were doing the cutting as they wanted the “value added” by turning the stuff into slices (could get a lot higher $/g for something that isn’t a hundreds of kilos chunk). The problem was that they were cutting the pieces to something on an awkward thickness. They were, generally, seen as too thick by collectors but they were thin enough that there really wasn’t an easy/ safe way to split them into thinner slices (that was before wire saws. A wire saw can probably cut this piece into several thinner slices but it would cost a fairly shocking amount of money to get that done, unfortunately). This is really kind of a long bar with only one of its shorter edges being a natural surface. This piece has been etched on both sides and does show a good etch structure. This was another Stephan piece that was uncoated. Like the others, this does show some (very minor) surface discoloration from oxidation (limited to one side). This could be completely renewed by someone that actually knows how to etch (don’t look at me, I really suck at etching). Frankly, it is safe (now coated) staying the way it is. This comes with a Matt Stream “Streaming Meteorites” label. This is priced well below what the Russians would charge for a similar piece these days.
523.5 gram part slice – 140mm x 50mm x 9mm - $780.

Shipping:
PLEASE NOTE-

 USPS POSTAL RATES HAVE INCREASED BY ABOUT 8% ABOVE THE COSTS LISTED BELOW A CUSTOM QUOTE ON SHIPPING MAY BE REQUIRED.

US:
I have indeed found that even my smallest jewelry box in a padded envelope now costs a minimum of $8 to send now. I know that there is yet a further shipping rate increase in the works. I have heard that package shipping rates will be going up (or may have already) another 8% or so. I won’t work about this until I actually see/ experience it. So, for JUST now, basic shipping will be $8. For small priority flat-rate boxes $12 should be fine. For things that are not light or small and won’t even fit in a small Priority flat-rate box I’ll probably need to custom quote the shipping.

OVERSEAS:
It has been some time since I have sent anything out of the US. With all the hassles and paperwork these days, that us something of a blessing. At this point, anything going overseas, I will need to look up shipping costs. However, the last packages I sent out of the US were about $17 for my basic small/ cheap specimen in a padded envelope to Canada and around $25 going to Europe. For small priority flat-rate boxes I think it was around $30 to Canada and around $45 to Europe.