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MeteoriteGuy
MeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
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Hello everyone,

Have been lurking in the backgrounds a few months, collecting various PSA, mostly modern PSA 10's.

I am a longtime collector and have supplied dealers or was a dealer myself in about every major collecting field. From comics, coins, stamps, sport cards....to comic art, war letters, minerals, fossils....and the last few years meteorites.

I have a website that is meteorite related and have authored about 50 articles on the subject (www.meteoritearticles.com) and I am a board member of the International Meteorite Collectors Association (www.imca.cc) and the Kansas Meteorite Society (www.kansasmeteorites.com).

Strangest two collectibles I have purchased: The side of a house hit by a meteorite (Park Forest) and one of the X-Prize Space Rockets that exploded on lift off.

Last two collectibles I purchased (ebay): 1914 1c Stamp x 2 (US #331) and a rare 1978 booklet pane stamp first day cover.

Best lesson learned in collecting: You can't have everything.

Most entertaining lesson learned in collection: Space rockets do not fit through doorways.


Clear Skies,
Mark Bostick
Wichita, Kansas
Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.

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  • Bunker
    Bunker Posts: 3,926 ✭
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    Welcome to the boards Mark! Sounds like your collecting intrests are pretty diverse. You wouldn't happen to have a picture of the rocket by any chance would ya? image

    Rick
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  • Elemenopeo
    Elemenopeo Posts: 2,577 ✭✭
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    The side of a house may well be the most unusual "collectible" I've ever heard of.

    Welcome!
  • MeteoriteGuy
    MeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
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    Hi Rick and Elemenopeo,

    Large meteorite impacts create "impactite" from the area rocks that get clobbered. (Impacts bigger then Meteor Crater in Northern Arizona.) Meteorite impactite has been actively collected for 100 years. Man made items hit by a meteorite, perhaps just the last 25. The Denver Museum had a large piece of meteorite pierced roof on display...but alas, no longer have their meteorite collection was taken down a couple years ago.

    Here is the story on the house crater:
    http://www.meteoritearticles.com/pfwinslowcrater.html

    The rocket can be seen at the bottom of this web page:
    http://www.meteoritearticles.com/rubicon1.html

    Just to keep this related to this board, I wonder if PSA would grade them....;^)

    Mark
    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • MeteoriteGuy
    MeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
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    I guess I do not have a photograph of me with the rocket pile on the web page. I will add that in a little bit but it will take my extremely large website a little while to load.

    Edit: Photo with me and wreckage now appears on the page.

    Mark
    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • mosaic
    mosaic Posts: 700 ✭
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    I can just see the future eBay auction titles now: PARK FOREST METEORITE HOUSE PSA 10 GEM

    Welcome to the boards. I'm a newbie myself, but have been warmly welcomed and have been enjoying the threads. If you're into collecting unique items, this is definitely a good place to be.

    Though I'd wager the side of a house hit by a space rock is probably the most unique item ever mentioned on here... if only it were Mickey Mantle's former home, you'd have everyone's complete attention.

    Nolan Ryan & Edgar Martinez are my favorite players...
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    mosaic's Nolan Ryan Basic Topps registry set
    mosaic's Big 3 Nolan Ryan Run Showcase

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