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Tobi
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 Posted: Jul 08, 2011 09:02 Post subject: Mineral labels as art ;) |
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Just an idea that i want to share with you: I never collected mineral labels intentionally, but after two decades of collecting you gather some of them who are quite old or from a known collector or just look exquisite. And i worried about them just lying somewhere in a drawer or so. So i took a choice of them and arranged them as a collage, framed and hung up the wall. Here some impressions of those "mineral labels as art", that actually decorate my home office ...
Cheers!
Tobi
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Tobi
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| Posted: Jul 08, 2011 09:13 Post subject: Re: Mineral labels as art ;) |
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| A closer shot of the labels. |
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| The upper half of the framed labels. |
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| And here's the other half. |
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Tobi
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| Posted: Jul 08, 2011 09:24 Post subject: Re: Mineral labels as art ;) |
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Some details as example...
Labels from purchased specimens:
https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/files/eula2_192.jpg
https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/files/calcite_elmwood01_188.jpg
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Labels from purchased specimens:
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Some more, i don't keep the cerussite anymore, but the sulphur label belongs to my new beauty:
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| And still some more, most of them from other private collectors and/or dealers ... |
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Anne Marie
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| Posted: Jul 08, 2011 10:25 Post subject: Re: Mineral labels as art ;) |
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Hi Tobi,
Thank you for posting this. The labels look amazing. Perfect timing too, I was just thinking I need to create consistent labels for my collection. Thanks for providing some great ideas.
Anne Marie
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Antonio Alcaide
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| Posted: Jul 08, 2011 17:01 Post subject: Re: Mineral labels as art ;) |
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Two collections better than one!!!! Nice collage, Tobias.
I agree with you, Anne Marie, I must design more consistent labels for the collection. The display, the boxes, labels, showcases are very important as well. But improving the labels is unexpensive and easy.
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Anne Marie
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| Posted: Jul 08, 2011 23:21 Post subject: Re: Mineral labels as art ;) |
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Yes Antonio,
We need assistants to do the all that work :-) I'm hoping I can get to the labels by the end of the year, then hopefully I can take some lovely photos like the ones that have been posted on the forum. For now I hope you are enjoying your rocks.
Best wishes on your project, Anne Marie
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Tobi
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| Posted: Jul 09, 2011 09:33 Post subject: Mineral labels as documented history of a collector |
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Thanks for your comments, folks!
It is not that easy to finally find consistent labels for your own collection; often it takes long time and many designs to find one you finally want to have for your collection. If you are interested (and maybe as an inspiration), here are some of my own private collection labels in different designs:
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| These are the ones i'm using at the moment. Measures 50 x 26 mm. |
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| These labels were made by the Mineralogical Museum of Marburg during my exhibition and handed out to me afterwards. Measures 40 x 25 mm. |
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Tobi
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| Posted: Jul 09, 2011 09:36 Post subject: Re: Mineral labels as documented history of a collector |
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And here some that show the change of my taste during the last years ...
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vic rzonca
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| Posted: Jul 09, 2011 21:07 Post subject: Re: Mineral labels as art ;) |
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| Very nice. Are you folks scanning these labels to present to us?
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Peter Megaw
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| Posted: Jul 10, 2011 06:50 Post subject: Re: Mineral labels as art ;) |
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Be nice to see the specimens that go with these labels!
Ed...how about posting one of your labels? For those who don't know Ed Huskinson does beautiful caligraphy labels!
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Tobi
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| Posted: Jul 10, 2011 08:17 Post subject: Re: Mineral labels as art ;) |
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Peter, i don't have good pictures of the specimens, and i also don't keep all of them anymore. But i provided some of the better specimens above via links to my collection thread.
And Ed, if you read this: I agree with Peter - please show one or some of your wonderful calligraphy labels, i always enjoy them :-)
And to all of you: Please don't consider this "my" label thread - i would like to share the label layouts with the whole FMF community; it would be interesting and inspiring to see the different styles and tastes ...
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Peter Megaw
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| Posted: Jul 10, 2011 10:44 Post subject: Re: Mineral labels as art ;) |
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Don't forget that the Mineralogical Record has a huge library of mineral labels on-line for viewing
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Andreas Gerstenberg
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| Posted: Jul 13, 2011 08:00 Post subject: Re: Mineral labels as art ;) |
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Nice! I had the same idea some time ago and the result were two collages of labels from H. Antonjewitsch/Berlin (late 1950s-1980s period). Inspired by these labels I crafted my on ones as shown.
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