Now for general impressions. Murchison seemed to be rapidly disappearing and the price was going up at the same rate. Very few individuals beyond a few grams were available. It was being sold by the capsule, which means the crumbs or the bottom of the proverbial barrel. The most plentiful meteorite was still Gibeon but not as plentiful as last year.
Some dealers say the strewn field is almost searched out.
There were many Sikhote-Alin fragments, outnumbering individuals by at least 10 or 15 to one. Some of them were ruined by too much wirebrushing. Some were completely stripped, their ridges rounded, and they had an unnatural silvery-brassy finish. These are now essentially worthless to the serious collector. It seemed that anything remotely connected to meteorites was for sale at prices one used to pay for real meteorites.