Learning Center What is a mineral?The most common minerals on earth Information for Educators Mindat Articles The Elements The Rock H. Currier Digital Library Geologic Time

Minerals by Properties Minerals by Chemistry Advanced Locality Search Random Mineral Random Locality Search by minID Localities Near Me Search Articles Search Glossary More Search Options

The Mindat Manual Add a New Photo Rate Photos Locality Edit Report Coordinate Completion Report Add Glossary Item

Mining Companies Statistics Users Mineral Museums Clubs & Organizations Mineral Shows & Events The Mindat Directory Device Settings The Mineral Quiz

Photo Search Photo Galleries Search by Color New Photos Today New Photos Yesterday Members' Photo Galleries Past Photo of the Day Gallery Photography

Discussions

💬 Home 🔎 Search 📅 Latest

╳Discussions

💬 Home 🔎 Search 📅 Latest

Groups

Recent Images in Discussions

EducationOld Labels - show them, discuss them, translate them! (Volume 4)

24th Feb 2024 23:48 UTCGabriel Plattes

Late nineteenth or early twentieth. Should have brushed the slide, prior to snapping a shot... Och. Still. :)

25th Feb 2024 03:09 UTCJeff Weissman Expert

Free Gold!!!! I'll take some, please. Remarkably well preserved for being 100 years old!

25th Feb 2024 03:15 UTCGabriel Plattes

Och! Too late for a disclaimer, Weissman? ;)

28th Feb 2024 11:48 UTCTerry Burtzlaff

Here is an antique specimen with labels of boracite crystals from the type locality of Luneburg, Germany. The 6.5 cm. long cotton plugged glass tube contains nine boracite tetrahedrons, mounted with a wire wrapping inserted in a black lacquered wooden base. Does anyone know who produced such specimens?

Boracite

Lüneburg District, Lower Saxony, Germany

28th Feb 2024 13:45 UTCHerwig Pelckmans

Hmm, can not answer your question, but there's a few remarks to be made:

* the large paper label is in English (based on the mineral name and following remarks)

* the usage of XLS (meaning "crystals")

* the usage of Hanover (English spelling of Hannover)

* the usage of Luneburg (English version would normally be Lunenburg) ...

I assume that the source of your specimen (how did you get it?) might hold an indication to who made these things (or had them made this way)...

27th Apr 2024 04:09 UTCHoward Heitner

The dealer was George L. English who was a dealer in New York at the time. This picture is from the Mineral Collector.

3rd Mar 2024 19:37 UTCJeff Weissman Expert

Here's one I came across the other day in my collection, any thoughts on the time period or information on the dealer or institution?

3rd Mar 2024 22:27 UTCJohan Kjellman Expert

Nérée Boubée died in 1862.

More here: https://mineralogicalrecord.com/biographies_labels/boube-nre/

and here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9r%C3%A9e_Boub%C3%A9e

3rd Mar 2024 23:01 UTCJeff Weissman Expert

Thanks, Johann - I should have remembered to check the MinRec data base. I am guessing the label is from between ~1890 and ~1937 based on the information on the label cross-referenced to the Mineralogical Record Data Base. I obtained the specimen from Jim Marshall back in 1999.

4th Mar 2024 10:14 UTCJohan Kjellman Expert

yes I see now it must be the grandson of Nérée Boubée, thus 20th c.

I found the birt/death of the son Ernest BOUBÉE 1845-1915,

and the grandson Nérée Emile BOUBÉE 1893-1967

4th Mar 2024 18:37 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

This is a label on a very nice azurite and malachite specimen but I can find Oviedo as a place but no mine of this name on mindat. Anyone have any idea of where this mine is or what name it may actually go by?

Also post the specimen below.

4th Mar 2024 18:38 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

Here is the specimen, about 4cm across and it has nice fluorite on it also, not listed on the label.

Looking over any Ana mines in Spain, there is one in Asturias with fluorite but it doesn't have azurite or malachite listed. No other Spanish Ana Mines seem to list azurite or malachite.

5th Mar 2024 13:34 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert

Got a Spanish expert involved and he said this piece is clearly from the Moscona Mine, also in Asturias but the fluorites were this yellow color, unlike the ones from Berbes area, which differ in color.

6th Mar 2024 00:28 UTCGabriel Plattes

Calcite, Schmetterlings-zwilling, Bigrigg x. :)

6th Mar 2024 00:30 UTCGabriel Plattes

Lady Gwendoline Mine, Cornwall. Mid twentieth century label? :) Any of us remember the use of these thin card tags?

6th Mar 2024 03:37 UTCHerwig Pelckmans

Yeah. If I remember correctly, I have one somewhere in the basement where the thread is glued onto the specimen. Like a "remote" lifesaver label. :-)

11th Mar 2024 20:07 UTCGabriel Plattes

Schlaggenwald, Bohemia. c19 specimen. :)

[Dig it out, Herwig! Is this a basement in Flanders, or in Iberia? ;) ]

12th Mar 2024 07:44 UTCHelmut Dobler

gelber Flusspath mit cristallis. Quarz, Schlaggenwald in Böhmen

yellow fluorite with cristallized quartz, Schlaggenwald (Horny Slavkov) in Bohemia

Mindat.org is an outreach project of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Copyright © mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy 1993-2024, except where stated. Most political location boundaries are © OpenStreetMap contributors. Mindat.org relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph.
Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Contact Us / DMCA issues - Report a bug/vulnerability Current server date and time: May 14, 2024 22:00:36

Go to top of page