Blaine Reed Meteorites For Sale- List 249 22MAR2022

Blaine Reed Meteorites

PO Box 1141

Delta, CO, USA  81416-1141

email- brmeteorites@yahoo.com

Telephone- +1(970) 874-1487

One last note: The Denver Spring show looks like it is going to happen. However, it seems that the dates have changed from where they had been in “normal” years earlier. This year it will be April 8th-10th (at the Crowne Plaza – same place I set up for the fall show). I WILL NOT be set up at this show but I will be visiting it. So, let me know IF you want me to bring anything



CLAXTON, Georgia: Ordinary chondrite (L6). Fell December 10, 1984. Tkw = 1455grams.
This is the one that hit the back end of a mailbox and knocked it completely off of its post. I actually owned the mailbox for 5 or 6 years until someone made me an offer I “couldn’t refuse”, so I didn’t. I had some nice pieces of this years ago when it was first made available to collectors but have seen very little since. These are from a collector that kind of had a thing for this meteorite and bought up any piece he could find and afford. He has decided to let the extras go. I sold 4 of the largest pieces in Tucson. Oddly, I only sold one of the small ones (it was that “big money” coming to the show thing mentioned above thing I guess). These are all part slices and all are in some sort of display container. All have a label with them. I did manage to get those in the group photo but I will mention what they are after each item listed below.\
1) Part Slices:
a) .058 grams – 5mm x 3mm x 2mm - $50 – Hupe Collection label
b) .33 grams – 9mm x 8mm x 2mm - $200 – John Bryan Scarbough label
c) .420 grams – 15mm x 6mm x 2mm - $250 – Hupe collection label
d) .66g slice – 14mm x 8mm x 2mm - $395 – Mile High Meteorites label



NWA (6043): Carbonaceous chondrite (CR2) S2, W2. Found 2009. Tkw = 1220 grams.
This is one of the “miscellaneous” things I picked up in Tucson as part of a small collection. I question the “W2” in the classification work as this looks more weathered to me than that. I don’t see any real fresh metal visible. However, I do see lots of iron oxides (magnetite/ hematite) surrounding many/ most of the chondrules so I don’t question the classification itself (I also looked it up in the Meteoritical Bulletin and it certainly does match the pictures presented for this meteorite there). This is a “book-end” piece – an end piece that has been cut in half (the benefit is that it will stand up nicely on its own).
19.5 gram “book end” – 30mm x 23mm x 15mm - $250

NWA (7454): Carbonaceous chondrite. (CV3). Found 2012. Tkw = 6 kilograms.
This was clearly cut/ prepared by the same person who cut/ prepared the specimen above. This is somewhat weathered but that helps in this case. The weathering has made some of the chondrules stained brown/ orange and such and it makes them really stand out nicely. This has lots of CAIs (the things that were the first solids formed in the solar system that contain micro-diamonds) but they are all fairly small (and often wildly irregular shapes). Allende prices have gone insane lately (certainly for many auction results anyway) and this has brought interest and prices up on pretty much all CV3 meteorites to some degree. This piece, if someone where so inclined, could be cut into several more slices and an end piece.
39.2 gram end piece – 40mm x 30mm x 25mm - $400

NWA (8162): HED achondrite (eucrite), monomict breccia. Found 2013. Tkw = 297.4 grams.
Now I know I would have sold this if I had bothered to put it on display in Tucson. I put it on a shelf in a box along with other “new” things I had picked up at the show and kind of forgot about it. This slice shows a fantastic breccia texture. Among the best for a eucrite, kind of looking Lunar like, actually. I had a similar looking slice (of a different brecciated eucrite) that was almost twice the price of this specimen and it sold in less than a day after I put it out for display. Anyway, this is a slice I sold some years ago that has now come back to me (and I am happy to have it). It is a relatively thin (but solid – almost glass like) complete slice through what was likely close to the center of the original stone.
24.4 gram complete slice – 73mm x 58mm x 2mm - $295

NWA (8452): Ordinary chondrite. (H4), S2, W1/2. Found 2014. Tkw = 130.2 grams.
This is a nice complete slice of this quite small recovery. That is not to say there can’t be other pieces of this particular meteorite out there somewhere, just that they did not stick around with this one to get classified with it. I think the only reason this one got reported at all (as its size is so small, classification work so expensive and time consuming) is that the person that sent it in thought that it might be a type 3, and a fairly good one at that. This is quite fresh actually. It shows lots of metal and is only weather stained to a point less than many the Gao stones I have cut open in recent times. I can understand why the person who had the work done thought it might be a “3”. It does have lots of chondrules. This comes in a 80mm x 55mm x 25mm plastic display box and a Meteorite-center.com label.
13.0 gram complete slice – 40mm x 30mm x 5mm - $40

WOODBINE, Illinois: Iron. Fine octahedrite, silicate (IAB). Found 1953. Tkw = 48.2 kilograms.
I picked this up as I remembered having someone ask me to keep an eye out for a piece for them. However, I later remembered that they were looking for a “substantial” (50 to 100g or so) piece of it, not a “micro”. Regardless, I suspect I’ll find that there are lots of people that were looking for a piece like this (sorry, I have only one). This is a nice little part slice that looks to be mostly from a silicate, sulfide rich inclusion. So, no real fresh metal BUT you get a bigger surface area for the weight because of it.
.61gram part slice – 11mm x 8mm x 2mm - $70

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Shipping: For small US orders $5 is needed now. Rates have gone up yet more this year and now the cheapest I can send anything is right at $5. Add $ for the padded envelope or box, jewelry boxes, etc and, in most cases, I am still loosing a little even at $5. Larger orders are now $9 to $16 (insurance is extra if desired – I’ll look it up if you want it).

Overseas prices have gone up A LOT the past couple years. Now small overseas orders are around $16 (Canada seems to be right around $14). I’ll have to custom quote any larger items/ orders (both local and overseas). Registration (recommended on more valuable overseas orders) is $16.

I do have a fax machine that seems to work (but I have to answer it and manually turn it on), so overseas people can contact me that way if they must. However, for overseas orders, it probably is best to go ahead and use my brmeteorites@yahoo.com e-mail when possible.

Blaine Reed Meteorites For Sale- List 146, last of 2013

Blaine Reed Meteorites For Sale- List 146, last of 2013

Blaine Reed
P.O. Box 1141
Delta, CO 81416
Ph/fax (970) 874-1487
…………………………………………………………………LIST 146

December 17, 2013

Dear Collectors,

This is going out the right day but a bit later than I would have liked. I was out of town for 5 days and I just got back last night. Of coarse, there were great piles of mail, phone messages, etc. waiting for me (I seem to get more “business” when I am not home. Maybe I should try to be gone more often). Anyway, I got caught up on the really important stuff and finally got around to typing this up well after 1PM. This will most certainly be my last list of 2013.

WHITECOURT, Canada: Iron. Medium octahedrite (IIIAB). Found July 1, 2009.
Here is one of the tiny handful of known meteorites that have an associated impact crater. The crater is about 40meters (about 130 feet) in diameter. Many meteorite fragments have been found since its discovery. Unfortunately, not all that many pieces have made it into collector’s hands. Most of the area where meteorites have been found has long since been protected as off limits for hunting meteorites. A further burden lies in getting the proper export permits for the material. Regardless, these three pieces were found by a customer of mine AND legally exported. The two larger pieces even have their exact find coordinates with them. These all have the full legal export permits. However, the two largest specimens here were exported under one certificate so I made a copy of this certificate (front and back) to put with the smaller specimen (the larger comes with the original as does the smallest piece listed here). Anyway, these are all natural as found fragments that have a very obvious shrapnel shape to them. I think these may be the first pieces of this meteorite I have offered.
a) 40.5 gram individual – 35mm x 26mm x 15mm - $300 – has original export permit papers.
b) 49.7 gram individual – 36mm x 28mm x 15mm - $350 – has photo copy of export permit.
c) 67.6 gram individual – 55mm x 30mm x 15mm - $490 – has original export permit papers.

CAT MOUNTAIN, Arizona: (L5), impact melt breccia. Found 1980. Tkw = 2.7 kilograms.
I remember the excitement and confusion this thing created when it came out. Robert Haag had bought this thing from a guy
that found it while hiking on A-mountain in Tucson. The thing certainly didn’t look like a meteorite. It looked like slag,
complete with some gas bubbles (a big part of what the “confusion” was over. How could a meteorite look like this?). Cutting
and research did indeed show that this was a meteorite. I think it was the very first of its kind reported (these things are still quite rare but a number o them have come out of NWA). The stuff was so weird and exciting it rapidly sold at hundreds of
dollars per gram! Anyway, I did not get any myself and this piece may be the first I have offered (certainly the only large piece anyway). This is a nice ¼ slice (two cut edges, the remainder being the natural fusion crust/ natural edge). This piece also has nice internal structure as well. There are areas that look like highly shocked L5 but there is a large “vein” of melt flow (about
40% of the surface) splitting this “matrix” material. Neat piece. The provenance on this (so you can be sure it is NOT an NWA
being passed on as a more desirable specimen) is I got it from Matt Morgan who got it from the collector that bought it directly from Robert Haag years ago. There were no certificate/ cards with this but the writing on the bag sure looks like Robert’s hand writing to me.
13.3 gram ¼ slice – 40mm x 40mm x 2mm - $1000

CLAXTON, Georgia: (L6). Fell December 10, 1984. Tkw = 1455 grams.
This is the famous one that took out a mail box in its fall. I owned that for around 5 years before selling it off and buying a piece of land with the proceeds. Anyway, I have not had a piece of the meteorite in a long time. Matt had this small piece set out and I asked if I could offer it on a list. Obviously the answer was “yes”. This not an extremely exciting piece. Just a nice fresh triangular shaped slice in a membrane box. However, what little of this was released to collectors years ago has long since found homes and it is a rare day that one has the chance to buy any piece of this one.
.635 gram slice – 16mm x 8mm x 2mm - $300

CUMBERLAND FALLS, Kentucky: (Aubrite). Fell April9, 1919. Tkw = 14.1 kilograms.
Here are a couple really nice little micros (?) These are probably better termed as “macros”, small but still show a good representative texture (breccia in this case). These are the kinds of pieces I would have in my “micro” collection (in fact I may indeed have a similar piece of this meteorite hiding there right now). Not cheap, but very nice and rarely offered.
a) .83 gram slice – 15mm x 12mm x 2mm - $200
b) 1.13 gram slice – 14mm x 14mm x 2mm - $280

D’ORBIGNY, Argentina: (Angrite). Found 1979. Tkw = 16.55 kilograms.
I think this one was even worse than Cat Mountain for creating a stir in the collecting community. The first time I ever saw it ( a large piece that ASU had for a potential trade) I could not believe that it could possibly be a meteorite. It had a weird elongate crystal texture. Different but not that different. However, this thing had holes in it, sometimes very large holes. AND these holes sometimes had weird long brown crystals growing in them. Absolutely astounding. I it weren’t for the presence of at least some fusion crusty, and a lot of detailed scientific work, this thing would likely never have been recognized as a meteorite. (HOWEVER – this does NOT mean that things that have a passing resemblance to this, or other meteorite types ARE meteorites.). These are nice, thin small slices. These pieces (except the very smallest) have some open areas/ vesicles, though most of these are very irregular in shape. The largest piece though does have a 3mm “crater” that is really a portion of one of the large round vesicles found in this meteorite.
a) .57 gram slice – 10mm x 10mm x 2mm - $150
b) 1.00 gram slice – 13mm x 12mm x 2mm - $260
c) 1.56 gram slice – 20mm x 13mm x 2mm - $405
d) 1.90 gram slice – 20mm x 16mm x 2mm - $495