Collections and Storage
My ideas on storing your collectables, and how to maintain order and value in the long term.
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Roger Harker collection specimens – set 1
I recently managed to get a hold of some excellent quality specimens formerly owned by Roger Harker, a prominent British mineralogist who happens to have studied in my home city of Leicester. Plenty of these were owned by other well known figures in the mineralogy...
Preserving provenance: removing adhered labels from boxes
This article is primarily written from a UK-centric point of view, but I know there is a similar downturn in mining in other European countries too. With the almost complete end of the mining industry in the UK, with land reclamation, with the protection of sites for...