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Claus Hedegaard

Terms

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1. All specimens are sold on a first-come first-served basis excluding shipping & packing.

2. All prices are quoted in Euro (EUR) and the balance is to be settled prior to shipment. I accept payment by bank transfer, Western Union, Moneygram and by Paypal.

3. All specimens may be returned for a refund of specimen price within 14 days of receipt. Please wrap carefully and mark customs form "Returned property of recipient" to avoid duty.

4. Shipping & packing is charged for at cost price. Specimens are shipped as uninsured first class letter or parcel. Please note, it is relatively expensive to send small packages. Current charges (likely valid until Dec. 2008) are:

Weight Europe Elsewhere
To 250 g 4.75 6.75
250 - 500 g 7.00 10.00
500 g - 1 kg 11.00 17.50
1-2 kg 17.50 27.50

5. If you need any additional information, please feel free to ask.

6. Don't worry if I take time to reply - I travel extensively and may be away. You are NOT forgotten if you don't hear from me for a week or two, I am just away on business.

7. The nasty small print: I reserve my right to refuse selling to anybody. The way things are today, I do not wish to supply raw materials to nefarious use, nor to anybody or any place, where I feel uncertain about the proper disposition of my specimens. No, I am not just talking about Al Qaeda blowing up the World - I wish to see my specimens preserved and will not sell them for cutting, healing or other mystical use.

Why sell?

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It seems logic that I add a few words on why I wish to sell the collection, being an active collector for nearly thirty years and (hopefully!) not facing imminent death. To put it short, I am done. Not collecting, not even collecting minerals, but I have accumulated all these specimens, have looked at them, enjoyed them, read about them, etc. and can not expect much more fun from them. I can obviously pull out all my Cornish specimens, look at them, read all my Cornish references, look at the specimens again and be a bit wiser - I will likely be able to identify some more of the question marks - but I would really like to shift emphasis. I would much rather collect one or two localities or groups of localities and have the time and facilities to emphasize that, rather than cover everything moving in mineralogy. There is so much going on in mineralogy - disregard the doom and gloom, which is just old people grumbling - and I would like to specialise, but I would also like to specialise in something 'new', a deposit that is growing as we watch. As a collector I have witnessed the glory of the Deccan Plateau (still good), Pakistan & Afghanistan (vaning), Tsumeb (gone), the Erongo Complex (at its peak, maybe a bit over), and many less prominent areas. There are many more coming, and I would like to pick up on one of those, when I meet it.

I will not stop collecting, but I would like to specialise into something, I do not know what is, and that is not there yet. Selling my collection will allow me to do that, start with a clean slate, without facing the curatorial task of maintaining a huge collection, I am hardly going to look at any more. Yes, I could specialise in something I already have a lot of, but selling an 'amputated' collection is difficult, hardly fair to the potential buyer, and I would likely find myself 'specialising' in far too much!