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[Tobi]

Our new member jvanko joined us with a question concerning this older specimen from southern Germany. He posted it in the Baden-Wuerttemberg section of the mineralogical journey through Germany which is not wrong but I think the section should be for the presentation of minerals and not for specimens that have questions. I think this topic fits better in this part of the forum, here are his question and his photo:

[Tobi]

P.S. Andreas' very quick response via WhatsApp: He doesn't know the collection. He fears someone might have written the label on an older piece of paper and that it could be "only" around 40 years old. If really older, he guesses that it is not older than from the 1930s.

[jvanko]

Tobi - Thank you for contacting Andreas. He has posted numerous examples of specimens from Baden which include labels not unlike mine. I was hoping he would recognize similar labels in his collection and thereby identify the collector.

Note the label contains "High iren Olivine" in English for a specimen surely collected in the Limberg Quarry near Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl, Baden. To me this signifies a German rock and mineral collector who spelled English "iron" as "iren" (understandable for someone familiar with "eisen").

Could you ask Andreas to take one last look at my label and see if he recognizes similar ones in his collection?

Thank you very much,

John Vanko

[Tobi]

[jvanko]

Thanks very much to both you and Andreas,
John