The Ensisheim Meteorite Show 2015 Photos

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: A few drinks before bed then early flight in the morning 🙂

: First view of the beautiful ‘Domaine Du Moulin’ Hotel.

: The hotel owners remembered us from last year and gave us a warm welcome 🙂

: First beer in the square 🙂

: Musee La Regence where the show takes place.

: One of the first people we met up with was Jaouad Chaoui.

: Jaouad soon pulled some goodies from his rucksack for us to peruse 🙂

: The famous church where the Ensisheim meteorite was chained up to prevent it escaping back to heaven.

: Graham and Luther chatting to Giorgio Tomelleri.

: Luther, Me, Graham and Dave 🙂 (Photo courtesy of Dave Gheesling)

: Greg Hupe with the main mass of NWA 5000.

: First deals are done in the Square before cars are even unpacked 🙂 (Photo courtesy of Luther Jackson)

: Greg adjusting his NWA 5000 specimens in the display cabinets.

: Sigrid Wengert with her 7kg sculptural Gibeon .

: Luther and Sigrid with her amazing Gibeon specimen.

: Luther and 7kg Gibeon belonging to Sigrid Wengert.

: Moritz Karl setting up his display pieces.

: Moritz Karl with some amazing pieces on display.

: Sigrid stood behind the famous Ensisheim Meteorite.

: Luther and Sigrid watching Moritz setup his display.

: The Ensisheim meteorite that fell in 1492.

: The Ensisheim meteorite fittingly displayed on regal red velvet.

: Stunning large Taza on display from Greg Hupe.

: Two large masses of NWA 5000 from Greg Hupe.

: Amazing main mass of NWA 5000.

: Fusion crusted rear of the NWA 5000 main mass.

: Historic Renazzo from Achim and Moritz Karl.

: NWA 6072 Eucrite from Sigrid Wengert.

: DAG 414 800g main mass from Sigrid Wengert.

: Huge Elbogen slice from Achim and Moritz Karl.

: Sigrid displayed this large sculptural Gibeon along with a painting of it by her husband.

: 1kg plus endcut of beautiful Gujba from Achim and Moritz Karl.

: Individuals of Weston from Achim and Moritz Karl.

: Various different examples of Norton County from Sigrid Wengert.

: Large slab of Eagle Station pallasite from Achim and Moritz Karl.

: Stannern individual with historic labels from Achim and Moritz Karl.

: Another larger Stannern individual from Achim and Moritz Karl.

: DAG 406 a just beautiful iron which was an early Libyan find by Achim Karl.

: Huge slab of Bencubbin from Achim and Moritz Karl.

: My 97.5g fragment of Barwell ‘The Christmas Meteorite’ along with photos and letter from the original finder.

: 97.5g piece of Barwell from myself.

: Just stunning fusion crusted 1268g mass of Tatahouine from Marc Jost and Sergey Vasiliev.

: This stunning specimen changed owners during the show and now proudly resides in Vincent Jacque’s collection.

: Large part slice of Esquel from Marc Jost.

: 13kg Sueilila main mass, a find from Mauritania in 2005 from Marc Jost.

: 152g specimen of the D’Orbigny Angrite.

: Large impressive piece of the CK4 Karoonda meteorite.

: 6g slice of NWA 8171 (Black Beauty) from Marc Jost.

: Large regmaglypted Taza that was also used as a tool in ancient times from Graham Ensor.

: Magdalena Skizewska had brought some beautiful meteorite themed prints for display.

: Another of Magdalena’s prints.

: The exhibition truly contained some world class specimens and it was an honour to have something on display there.

: Standing next to the Ensisheim main mass.

: Still feels amazing to be able to stand next to this historic meteorite.

: Jason Utas examining some of the wonderful space rocks on display.

: Lots of Libyan Desert Glass on display from this seller.

: Tables full of wonderful space rocks! (Photo courtesy of Luther Jackson)

: The historic wooden cabinet housing a cast of the Ensisheim meteorite on display in the main hall.

: Greg Hupe with some fantastic specimens for sale.

: Large slices of Seymchan pallasite cut from a 54kg individual offered by Greg Hupe.

: Harald Stehlik examining a possible lunar meteorite at Pani’s table.

: Jaouad smiling away at his display in the main hall.

: Dealers finished off setting up before heading down to the square.

: Everyone gathers in the main square for drinks and chat.

: Groups form, move and reform as everyone tries to say hello to everyone.

: Luther, Dave and Graham in the Square.

: Early purchases and trades are eagerly shown and discussed.

: Graham’s first acquisition of a large fresh Rumurite individual being examined by Dave.

: More space rocks come out of Graham’s bag.

: Zelemir opening the show with a speech.

: Zelemir officially opening the show.

: Myself, Andries, Rene, Graham and Luther at ‘La Diligence’ a bar/restaurant that we found last year and enjoyed their food, they didn’t disappoint this year either!

: I went for the Goats cheese and bacon salad 🙂

: The portions weren’t small!

: Nice pizza and Jambonneau too (Photo courtesy of Luther Jackson)

: Graham and Luther talking to Ludovic Ferriere, the curator of the Vienna meteorite collection.

: Dave and Svend enjoying Zach’s playing.

: Zach was great to listen to as he wandered the Square playing and singing.

: The beer wagon is always the focus of the evenings entertainment! (Photo courtesy of Luther Jackson)

: Rob brought with him a bottle of nice bourbon, Maker’s Mark 46. Went down well and didn’t last long!

: Rob, Svend and Graham at the beer wagon.

: Marc Jost and me by the beer wagon. (Photo courtesy of Luther Jackson)

: Marc somehow always at some point finds himself behind the bar!

: Old and new friends together 🙂

: Marc, Peter, Luther, Andries and Graham.

: Can’t remember what was funny but something tickled us.(Photo courtesy of Luther Jackson)

: A few of us ended up at ‘La Diligence’ to carry on the fun.

: Marc, Graham, Dave and Luther at the bar.

: When the bar closed we moved on to Marc’s place and stopped for a sit down en route………..

: 3am feast of bread, ham cheese and beer! 🙂

: Time to head back to the hotel for bed.

: Lots of meteorites on display here.

: Graham poring over the rocks on display.

: Sergey Vasiliev’s display.

: Some amazing historic samples on Sergey’s display.

: Graham holding 2 fully crusted individuals that fit together exactly. They must have split high up in hot flight to enable them to crust over fully. Both found on the same table at the show and matched together!

: Graham holding 2 fully crusted individuals that fit together exactly. They must have split high up in hot flight to enable them to crust over fully. Both found on the same table at the show and matched together!

: Laurent and friend’s son manning the display.

: Some nice rare French pieces on Laurent’s table.

: Marc Jost, Sergey Vasiliev and Peter Marmet had recently bought an old collection which had many fantastic specimens in, many coming from Walter Zeitschel. One of note was a 10g piece of Nahkla!

: Graham, Jarkko, Luther and Tomasz.

: Kally Wombacher and Hanno Strufe by Hanno’s display.

: Graham talking with Jaouad Chaoui at his display.

: Alain Carion and Luc Labenne at their tables.

: Luther talking with Pierre-Marie Pele at his table.

: Greg Hupe and Luc Labenne in the main Square.

: A few drinks before the evening meal.

: Luther, Mike and Rob in the main Square.

: Mike and me having a blinking competition! (Photo courtesy of Luther Jackson)

: A French band playing during the afternoon and evening.

: Some of Graham’s goodies, a wonderful oriented broken Eucrite and an amazing large Rumurite individual covered in contraction cracks. (Photo courtesy of Luther Jackson)

: It was good to meet Greg Hoeher again. Last year we nicknamed him ‘Chely Greg’ after his predilection for Chelys. He didn’t disappoint this year as his first purchase was a Chelyabinsk thin section! 🙂

: Graham’s Rumuritite individual was a popular topic of conversation.

: A very nice bottle of beer very kindly given to me for my birthday by Kally Wombacher 🙂

: We gave bottles of wine to the different groups sat in the marquee which went down well 🙂

: Lucasz, Magdalena, Jarkko, Jason and ?? talking space rocks.

: Meteorite discussion going on into the small hours……….

: Luther’s ‘More wine’ face!

: Great atmosphere as always in the main square in the evening.

: Last drinks in the Square before heading back to the hotel for a few more…….(Photo courtesy of Dave Gheesling)

: No corkscrew, no problem!

: Dave with some serious bottle opening skills 🙂

: Luther, Rob, Graham, Dave, Kally, Me and Mike enjoying wine and banter in the hotel reception.

: Lovely Sunday breakfast in a local cafe.

: There are many references to the historic Ensisheim meteorite fall throughout the town.

: Luther, myself, Graham, Darryl and Dave sin front of the ‘Musee de Regence’ (Photo courtesy of Dave Gheesling)

: An old truck in the grounds of the hotel.

: The monument was erected in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Ensisheim meteorite fall.

: We always make a trip to visit the monument every year.

: Myself, Graham, Mike, Rob, Luther, Jason and Bastian by the Ensisheim monument.

: This monument of the Ensisheim ‘meteorite’ impacting is situated just outside the prison gates.

: The red hot Ensisheim ‘meteorite’ 😉

: I was very pleased to add two rare and historic French meteorite thin sections to my collection from Anne Black.

: Examining some of the historic specimens on Marc Jost and Peter Marmet’s table.

: Silence as everyone tucks in!

: Arnaud Mignan and me in the main hall. (Photo courtesy of Luther Jackson)

: I went for the Jambonneau cooked in beer which was delicious.

: Rob attacking his pizza with gusto!

: We were all tempted by the wonderful Pistachio and Caramel Vacherin that the chef proudly brought out to tempt us 🙂

: The hotel has wonderful Spa facilities available.

: Some Storks on a roof near the hotel. (Photo courtesy of Luther Jackson)

: One of the last meteorite related sights as we walk to the hotel before leaving for the airport.

: Show acquisition number 1 – Exceedingly rare ‘Paris’ CM meteorite.

: Show acquisition number 2 – Meteorite ‘Matching cards’ game by Pierre-Marie Pele and Fabien Kuntz.

: Show acquisition number 3 – Mini cast of the historic Willamette Meteorite.

: Show acquisition number 4 – Two rare and historic French Meteorite thin sections of Agen and Saint Germain du Pinel.

: Show acquisition number 5 – Different samples of impactite from the Tenoumer crater in Mauritania.

: Show acquisition number 6 – A selection of historic books and papers on French meteorites.

: Show acquisition number 7 – Very rare and historic 1867 Daubree report on the Orgeuil fall including beautiful original lithographic plates of specimens from the fall.

: Show acquisition number 8 – A 940g full slice of NWA 1941 (The Blue Chondrite)

: A father’s day card that was made by Phoebe where she hopes i had i good trip to ‘Enzashine’ 😉

: An uncanny likeness! 🙂

: One to frame i think 🙂