Look at it this way: if you were selling the biggest known lunar meteorite sphere in your auction, and you needed to show how much bigger it was than all the other lunar meteorites that have been ground down into spheres, would you photograph it next to a grapefruit you got at the Sotheby’s banana cart on York Avenue?
No, you absolutely would not. You would do exactly what Dr. Matthew Hoffarth is doing here, and so would I.
16 July 2025 Lot 74 | Lunar Meteorite, Tisserlitine 006, est $300-500,000 [sothebys, h/t jack]