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[Tobi]

The Tobi Martin Mineral Collection


After three decades of collecting minerals, I just wanted to write down the little history of how got into this hobby and how I developed my focus on minerals, and to present the best specimens from my collection. This is a project just for fun, inspired by the many wonderful illustrated collection and museum catalogues and other mineral magazines and books I have seen. Here’s the story.

[Tobi]

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[Carles Millan]

Congratulations, Tobi. A hard and excellent work. I'm going to browse it carefully.

[Jean Suffert]

Great story Tobi. You are completely in the same spirit than me. Few minerals but only the minerals I love and I can see every morning with the same pleasure day after day. Very nice specimen, congratulations.

[Philippe Durand]

I Love your fun .
if edited, I would buy the book ;

[Roger Warin]

Hello Tobi,
Your story is poignant with sincerity and passion.
Your conquest of the Mineral World is a lesson for young amateurs.
Do you authorize me to publish it (in French) in my club's magazine, Minibul-AGAB?
I congratulate you on having experienced such an evolution.
I am convinced that it leads to happiness.
Best regards,
Roger.

[Bob Carnein]

Nice post, Tobi. You're lucky that you can still return to the Marburg museum. My first experience with a museum collection was at the Academy of Natural Sciences, in Philadelphia, PA. Alas, Philistines were left in charge of caring for that collection.

[Tobi]

Thank you all for the comments, I'm really glad to see that it seems to be a good work that I did with that catalogue :-)

And Roger:

[am mizunaka]

What a wonderful publication showcasing your evolution as a collector along with images of your splendid minerals. Congratulations!

[Don Lum]

Tobi, congratulations on this wonderful story and catalog of specimens from your beautiful collection.

Regards,
Don

[Tobi]

Mike and Don, thank you, it means a lot to me that you appreciate my work. Your collection presentations here have been an inspiration and they're part of my development. The more I'm glad you like the story!

And again thanks to Grandmaster Jordi for making this a publication on FMF!

Best regards
Tobi

[Jordi Fabre]

[Tobi]

[ALshawani]

Very cool and very beautiful, I congratulate you for this wonderful effort... and thank you for sharing with us, we enjoyed it..

[Antonio P. López]

Excelent job and fantastic collection.

Congratulations!

[Sante Celiberti]

Hello, Tobi.

My sincere congratulations on this wonderful catalogue.

I often had the desire to do something similar with my best specimens, but I have always been held back by my poor qualities as a photographer and by my scarce command of the computer.
As well as with your beautiful minerals, you arouse our interest with other initiatives related to the world of collecting, such as the choice of an appropriate label or the composition of a poster...

Thank you, my friend, for your inspiring participation in the Forum.
My warmest greetings.
Sante

[Tobi]

Thank you all so much for your kind words. Sante, what an overwhelming response, I'm more than happy that I could bring so much joy and entertainment and even inspiration - wow!

And Antonio, special thanks to you for your technical support!

Best regards
Tobi

[jose luis jara jara]

A fantastic and spectacular collection, to make your eyes fall, congratulations

[Dany Mabillard]

Hello Tobi,

Congratulations for your document that tell us the way you began your collection and the evolution of your manner to collect the minerals.
I'm impressed by the quality of your collection.

Thank you to have shared with us. It's always a pleasure to hear from you.

A Swiss fan.

Dany.

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