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[Tobi]

The packing is done, not much is left:

[Tobi]

The result: 8 cardboard boxes, together weighing 24 kilograms. I hope i can carry them into the museum without any accidents ...

[Tobi]

The only things left to be packed: Mineral artwork by German artists Eduard von Gruetzner (1846-1925), Adolf Mosengel (1837-1885) and ... Tobias Martin ;-) I hope they will go together well with the specimens:

[Carles Millan]

[Tobi]

The day at the museum started the same way yesterday ended: With work. Curator Professor Masberg and his assistant Mr. Keller helped me to unpack, to arrange and to give each specimen a good base for stable stand. Therefore they had a mobile work table - really useful ;-)

[Tobi]

After a while the work was half done: Most specimens unpacked and set on display. A few were still missing, also the labels, and many specimens were just lying down without a base ...

[GneissWare]

Very nice display!

[Tobi]

... But we finally got it: Each specimen was put at best point of view, the labels were added and the arrangement was completed. This picture was shot just before Mr. Keller closed the heavy front screen of the display.

[Tobi]

Thank you, Gneissware!

Here's another shot of the completed display. For size info: The entire display has a width of 150 cm, a depth of 50 cm and a height of 180 at all (130 cm display plus 50 cm pedestals).

[Tobi]

Some detailed shots. Here's a calcite from the Juchem Quarry near Idar-Oberstein. (The black labels measure 2,5 x 4 cm).

[Tobi]

A large quartz on hematite from Jinlong, China.

[Tobi]

Magnetite from Bolivia.

[Tobi]

A verdelite tourmaline in quartz from Brazil.

[Tobi]

Amazonite from Colorado, vanadinite from Morocco, wulfenite from the San Francisco Mine in Mexico.

[Tobi]

Iron ores and artwork: Two pyrites from the Huanzala Mine and a hematite from Elba next to my drawing of the museum.

[Tobi]

Quartz: Rock crystal from Jinkouhe/China, milky quartz from Madagascar and a smoky quartz from Brazil.

[Tobi]

A closer photo of the smoky quartz on cleavelandite. Comes from Galilea, Minas Gerais (BRA).

[Tobi]

Canadian apatite, double-terminated crystal in calcite.

[Tobi]

Almandine garnets, on the left a plate of crystals in mica shist from Ziller Valley (A), on the right a large single crystal from Brazil.

[Tobi]

Another shot of the two Peruvian pyrites together with my drawing.