P.O. Box 1141, Delta, CO 81416
Ph/fax (970) 874-1487
brmeteorites@yahoo.com
LIST 251 - July 19, 2022
Dear Collectors
Once again, I have been severely slacking in my e-mail offering duties. I have been tied up with all kinds of things. Projects, some travel (more of that to come in a couple weeks) and general stuff. I have also not had a lot of offering worthy items come in lately (but that is changing. I should be doing another offering with some Lunar, a Canadian meteorite and more fairly soon).
This is an offering of some nice iron meteorites that have managed to come in and pile up a bit lately. Some of these were in a collection I bought over a year ago that I just now finally went through. It was 9 large beer-flat boxes full of mostly small things. It took days and days to go through and sort. The larger items I picked up elsewhere (the Grein (005) I had never heard of before and picked up while in Denver last week).
This offering is a little out of sorts. It is NOT alphabetically listed as usual. This is mostly due to how I had pictures of some of these things already set up from earlier. So, I am listing the Gan Gan, then the Guadalupe Y Calvo (as I already had photos of these in my computer files) and THEN the other (3) items as these pieces will be in a group photo.
GAN GAN, Argentina: Iron. Fine octahedrite (IVA). Found 1984. Tkw = 83kg.
Here is a nice complete slice of this pretty meteorite. I had some pieces (part slices mostly) of this a few years ago and sold out fairly quickly. I can’t remember exactly what price I had on those, but I think it was something around $4/g (they were consignment pieces). I lucked into this piece by a collector contacting me asking if I could get any of this particular meteorite for them (I got them 3 pieces actually). I contacted the person I knew had pieces in the past. Yep, they had a few left. I got all that they would sell (a couple pieces were going to other collectors as this piece was scheduled to do as well until the other buyer ended up passing on it. Understandable, it is a pretty big chunk of money and things are getting a bit weird in our economy right now). This slice is etched on both sides, though the back was not sanded smooth first (so there are some remaining saw marks hiding in/ under the etch). This comes with one of my info cards from when I first offered pieces of this material many (like around 30) years ago as well as a Schwade Collection label.
851.2 gram etched complete slice – 250mm x 150mm x 5mm - $2500
GUADALUPE Y CALVO, Mexico: Iron. Hexahedrite (IIAB). Found 1971. Tkw = 58.63kg.
I remember buying this one. A guy in Tucson had it and we (several of us, including Jim, who I got these from relatively recently) made a special trip there to negotiate the purchase. We were, eventually, successful but not so on the Canyon Diablos the seller had (he had the better part of a bucket full of thumb-sized Canyon Diablos with a “number painted on each” (those were Nininger numbers!!!!!). He refused to sell them as he wanted a piece of Haag’s Odessa action (Robert would tumble polish small Odessa pieces and then sell pretty much all he had in minutes at around $1/g). This guy insisted on keeping the pieces so he could (and did, unfortunately) tumble them up and sell them for “big bucks”. He was under the (mistaken) impression that these piece being a) bigger and b) not Odessa would sell for far more than $1/g (they didn’t)). The Guadalupe was a success for all of us. It was no longer going to be just an unknown dog-food bowl on a ranch in Mexico. Collectors were going to be able to get a piece of a Hexahedrite which was a hard to come by type iron back then (and not terribly common even these days, actually). Wish we had better luck in our attempts to buy the Canyon Diablos. These are all half slices. They have one cut edge with the remainder being natural. These have been etched (on one side only) but, to be honest, this stuff does not show a whole lot – just some fine scratch mark looking lines (Nuemann lines). I had some of this a few years ago. I sold out of this fairly quickly as well. I found the card that I had in the Riker with those specimens when I put them out at shows. That had the price at $4/g. I am making these pieces substantially cheaper now (these are fairly large pieces). These all come with one of my original Guadalupe info cards and a Schwade Collection label.
1) Part slices. One cut edge:
a) 243.6 grams – 110mm x 55mm x 5mm - $700
b) 296.8 grams – 120mm x 65mm x 5mm - $850
c) 349.1 grams – 130mm x 75mm x 5mm - $1000
CAMPO DEL CIELO, Argentina: Found 1576. Tkw = A LOT!
This is an etched (on both sides) complete slice. It was one of the specimens I pulled out of the above mentioned 9 box “collection” (more like an accumulation) of anything/ everything the guy could get for close to opening bids on E-Bay over many years, I suspect. He must have had well over 10,000 individual specimens! I think he was single, no kids, and did little but buy meteorites on E-Bay for his entertainment. Surprisingly, this (and the Morasko pieces below) were some of the largest/ best pieces in the mix(!!! – most of the stuff I packaged up, labeled, priced and sold as a lot to a friend that runs a large retail store). Anyway, if I don’t sell this here, I’ll probably set it up in a Riker (labeled and such) and put it out in Denver (at a slightly higher price – rikers have gotten surprisingly expensive lately. But then, so has pretty much everything else).
49.7 gram slice. Etched both sides – 70mm x 28mm x 3mm - $50
GREIN (005), Niger: Iron. Medium octahedrite (IIIAB). Found 2015. Tkw = 52.5kg.
This is listed as being purchased on December 22, 2015. It was a single specimen (that actually had a nice point/ cone shape from the picture I was able to find of it online). I got this mostly complete slice (it has a 25mm straight cut on one end that is hardly noticeable) while I was in Denver a week ago. It, like the Gan Gan above, is etched on both sides but polished down only on one. I had never heard of this meteorite before (and RARELY get the chance to get an etched medium octahedrite). This slice does have a few tiny brown spots but, overall, looks really nice. This has had some kind of treatment done on it (stabilization, etching) and is supposedly guaranteed to stay good (nope, ocean side, next to the aquarium, in the shower (yep, I actually had a guy do that with a Brenham once!) or by the hot tub does NOT count) and will be re-treated if it becomes needed.
319.4 gram slice – 150mm x 70mm x 5mm - $475
MORASKO, Poland. Iron. Coarse octahedrite (IAB). Found 1914. Tkw = over 1000kg.
These two pieces were in the 9 box “collection” and were some of the few specimens I decided to hang on to for this type offering or selling at a show (Denver in September is my next big one. It looks like I’ll be going to Creede for their show August 5th, 6th, 7th but I don’t plan on bringing these pieces. However IF one of you seeing this offering is going to the show and wants me to bring either of these (or anything on this list) please let me know and I’ll put it in the “take” pile). The smaller piece is an end piece that is just polished on the face. The back-side has been substantially cleaned (shows some shiny metal but has considerable area that looks wire brushed). The bigger piece is a part (1/2) slice. It is polished and etched on both sides. It has been quite awhile since I have had a piece of this stuff. It will probably be awhile before I get another piece as well.
a) 31.9g end piece with polished face – 40mm x 30mm x 6mm - $70
b) 53.6g part slice. Etched both sides – 55mm x 30mm x 5mm - $115
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.
Here is a nice complete slice of this pretty meteorite. I had some pieces (part slices mostly) of this a few years ago and sold out fairly quickly. I can’t remember exactly what price I had on those, but I think it was something around $4/g (they were consignment pieces). I lucked into this piece by a collector contacting me asking if I could get any of this particular meteorite for them (I got them 3 pieces actually). I contacted the person I knew had pieces in the past. Yep, they had a few left. I got all that they would sell (a couple pieces were going to other collectors as this piece was scheduled to do as well until the other buyer ended up passing on it. Understandable, it is a pretty big chunk of money and things are getting a bit weird in our economy right now). This slice is etched on both sides, though the back was not sanded smooth first (so there are some remaining saw marks hiding in/ under the etch). This comes with one of my info cards from when I first offered pieces of this material many (like around 30) years ago as well as a Schwade Collection label.
851.2 gram etched complete slice – 250mm x 150mm x 5mm - $2500
GUADALUPE Y CALVO, Mexico: Iron. Hexahedrite (IIAB). Found 1971. Tkw = 58.63kg.
I remember buying this one. A guy in Tucson had it and we (several of us, including Jim, who I got these from relatively recently) made a special trip there to negotiate the purchase. We were, eventually, successful but not so on the Canyon Diablos the seller had (he had the better part of a bucket full of thumb-sized Canyon Diablos with a “number painted on each” (those were Nininger numbers!!!!!). He refused to sell them as he wanted a piece of Haag’s Odessa action (Robert would tumble polish small Odessa pieces and then sell pretty much all he had in minutes at around $1/g). This guy insisted on keeping the pieces so he could (and did, unfortunately) tumble them up and sell them for “big bucks”. He was under the (mistaken) impression that these piece being a) bigger and b) not Odessa would sell for far more than $1/g (they didn’t)). The Guadalupe was a success for all of us. It was no longer going to be just an unknown dog-food bowl on a ranch in Mexico. Collectors were going to be able to get a piece of a Hexahedrite which was a hard to come by type iron back then (and not terribly common even these days, actually). Wish we had better luck in our attempts to buy the Canyon Diablos. These are all half slices. They have one cut edge with the remainder being natural. These have been etched (on one side only) but, to be honest, this stuff does not show a whole lot – just some fine scratch mark looking lines (Nuemann lines). I had some of this a few years ago. I sold out of this fairly quickly as well. I found the card that I had in the Riker with those specimens when I put them out at shows. That had the price at $4/g. I am making these pieces substantially cheaper now (these are fairly large pieces). These all come with one of my original Guadalupe info cards and a Schwade Collection label.
1) Part slices. One cut edge:
a) 243.6 grams – 110mm x 55mm x 5mm - $700
b) 296.8 grams – 120mm x 65mm x 5mm - $850
c) 349.1 grams – 130mm x 75mm x 5mm - $1000
CAMPO DEL CIELO, Argentina: Found 1576. Tkw = A LOT!
This is an etched (on both sides) complete slice. It was one of the specimens I pulled out of the above mentioned 9 box “collection” (more like an accumulation) of anything/ everything the guy could get for close to opening bids on E-Bay over many years, I suspect. He must have had well over 10,000 individual specimens! I think he was single, no kids, and did little but buy meteorites on E-Bay for his entertainment. Surprisingly, this (and the Morasko pieces below) were some of the largest/ best pieces in the mix(!!! – most of the stuff I packaged up, labeled, priced and sold as a lot to a friend that runs a large retail store). Anyway, if I don’t sell this here, I’ll probably set it up in a Riker (labeled and such) and put it out in Denver (at a slightly higher price – rikers have gotten surprisingly expensive lately. But then, so has pretty much everything else).
49.7 gram slice. Etched both sides – 70mm x 28mm x 3mm - $50
GREIN (005), Niger: Iron. Medium octahedrite (IIIAB). Found 2015. Tkw = 52.5kg.
This is listed as being purchased on December 22, 2015. It was a single specimen (that actually had a nice point/ cone shape from the picture I was able to find of it online). I got this mostly complete slice (it has a 25mm straight cut on one end that is hardly noticeable) while I was in Denver a week ago. It, like the Gan Gan above, is etched on both sides but polished down only on one. I had never heard of this meteorite before (and RARELY get the chance to get an etched medium octahedrite). This slice does have a few tiny brown spots but, overall, looks really nice. This has had some kind of treatment done on it (stabilization, etching) and is supposedly guaranteed to stay good (nope, ocean side, next to the aquarium, in the shower (yep, I actually had a guy do that with a Brenham once!) or by the hot tub does NOT count) and will be re-treated if it becomes needed.
319.4 gram slice – 150mm x 70mm x 5mm - $475
MORASKO, Poland. Iron. Coarse octahedrite (IAB). Found 1914. Tkw = over 1000kg.
These two pieces were in the 9 box “collection” and were some of the few specimens I decided to hang on to for this type offering or selling at a show (Denver in September is my next big one. It looks like I’ll be going to Creede for their show August 5th, 6th, 7th but I don’t plan on bringing these pieces. However IF one of you seeing this offering is going to the show and wants me to bring either of these (or anything on this list) please let me know and I’ll put it in the “take” pile). The smaller piece is an end piece that is just polished on the face. The back-side has been substantially cleaned (shows some shiny metal but has considerable area that looks wire brushed). The bigger piece is a part (1/2) slice. It is polished and etched on both sides. It has been quite awhile since I have had a piece of this stuff. It will probably be awhile before I get another piece as well.
a) 31.9g end piece with polished face – 40mm x 30mm x 6mm - $70
b) 53.6g part slice. Etched both sides – 55mm x 30mm x 5mm - $115
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.
