Bruner Collection (Formerly Old Naturalist Collection) No. 5

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Pecopteris, from near Coal City, Illinois. Collected 1949.

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>>2176835
Other half.

>>2176833
Are the Xs the ones you have already done? How far along into the project are you?

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Annularia (?). No docs, but I assume it came from the same area as the pecopteris. Most of his fossil plants seem to have come from Coal City.

>>2176851
Yes the X stickers are drawers I've finished and the blank stickers are drawers I've started but not finished. Brown stickers are for broken drawers; pretty much everything below the fifth drawer in the right column is on broken rails. I'm going to have to either fix them or remove them all at once from top to bottom, otherwise taking a drawer out could make everything above it fall down, and of course those are the drawers full of millerite geodes and boxes marked "fragile specimen".

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>>2176864
Other half.

>>2176851
I counted and I've finished 17 drawers out of 51. Some drawers are packed to bursting and others barely have anything in them or are full of papers, so it's kind of hard to say exactly how far along I am.

>>2176871
17/51 holy shit you've been at it for a month.
I enjoy this though. Finish it.

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Little fellow here. Another pecopteris?

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Not sure what this one is.

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Another annularia. Wish I had some of these in the garden.

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Sigillaria stem cast in sandstone. Farmington Iowa. Collected 1933.

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He also saved a few pages from an article about a crinoid lagerstatte in Iowa in Hobbies Magazine from 1946.

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>>2176962

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>>2176963

I wish I had all these plant fossils. Something about them just really interest me. Thanks for continually posting OP.

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People were still fascinated by the "mysterious orient" when this guy was kicking around, so I suppose a bundle of chopsticks was probably pretty impressive to him.

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>>2176972
Pretty patterns in any case.

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>>2176976

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>>2176980
Alright that's enough of these lets get back to nature.

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Another sea shell in here for some reason

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Last one for today. Per the notes this is a piece of colonial coral.

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>>2176988
Which has formed an agate geode.

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>>2176992
Other half.

>>2176992
>>2176995
oh wow!

>>2176995
How does that even happen? First time I've ever seen a geode that looked like your typical coral skeleton

It's really cool that you're doing this. I think he'd be happy to know his collection is being appreciated, even if it's by weirdos on 4chan.

>>2177007
I haven't the foggiest notion. There was a cavity, some silica came along and filled it, that's all I got. I was under the impression that as coral colonies grew the individual spaces each animal lived in remained intact but empty, I don't know how a single cavity formed for all this to go on.

>>2177011
I tend to think he'd be a little peeved that no one warned him about pyrite bloom

>>2176992
Fukken SICK.
Is that up for sale?

>>2176972
If those are what I think they are you might be a literal millionaire.
Clink them together, see if they're wood because I'm betting they aren't.

>>2177074
I've gone home for the day, but I'll check them tommorow. I don't think they're wood. The stuff in here is nice but not million dollar nice, and I'm not nearly so lucky.

>>2177063
If the bill of sale that came with it is accurate its on sale for either $27 or $2700.

>>2176912
looks like a fossil m8

>>2177074
You thinking ivory?

>>2176923
Just plant some Equisetum. Close enough.

>>2177077
Get them looked at asap.
Those are Tori Naka handpainted Korean whalebone chopsticks.
Properly paperworked, and on the right market, you will be a very very rich man

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The chopsticks are going to have to wait. My supe caught me in the hall and told me that the payroll people wanted the display in their office tidied up.

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>>2177661
Largest specimen of herkimers I've ever seen in person.

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Gold Nuggets, Mariposa Co. California.

>>2177661
Can you post shelf 2, 4th rock please?

>>2176833
This is a good thread

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Gold "filigree"?

This was right in between 2 different labels. I figure that at the least its definitely gold, everything else on the shelf was gold except those herkimers.

>>2177672
4th from the left or right?

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Malachite w/ quartz. Lyons Gulch, Mariposa Co. California.

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Wulfenite. Red Cloud Mine, Arizona.

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Malachite, Katanga, SW Africa.

>>2177705
I think that's the one. 2 down, 4 right.
Absolutely stunning, fuck I want one.

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Azurite, Bisbee Arizona.

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>>2177718

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>>2177720
Little cluster of crystals on the back. I think the green bubbly stuff is chrysocolla, both it and azurite are common secondary copper minerals and the color doesn't look quite right for malachite.

>>2177709
Malachite isn't too too rare, a good mineral dealer could hook you up with a decent specimen for somewhere in the $30-60 range.

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>>2177724
Chalcanthite from the same mine.

Now THIS is how you store chalcanthite correctly. Sealed box to keep it from dehydrating and to keep dumb kids from eating it.

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Big chunk of our old friend amethyst. I like the presentation on this one, Dr. Nichols specifically noted on the label that the presence of the Fe 3+ ion is responsible for the color.

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Quartz w/ chlorite inclusions, known in some circles as "Garden Quartz". Black Hills, San Diego.

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Melanite, a calcium-iron-titanium garnet. San Benito Co. California.

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>>2177755
Different angle.

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Bornite. Copper Queen Mine, Mariposa Co. California.

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Halite w/ some hopper faces. Searles Lake, Mojave Desert, California.

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Biggest gypsum desert rose I've ever seen.

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Last one: Epidote.

and back to the basement I go.

>>2177685
superior specimen, 10/10
I've seen plenty of museums without an example that nice. Fucking textbook.

Nice OP. Thanks for sharing

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Sorry for the delay, computer decided to go apeshit.

Going back to the matter of the chopsticks, they don't really sound like wood when I tap them together. I suppose I should call up someone in anthro who does Korean culture? In any case I probably shouldn't eat my takeout with them.

>>2177838
Seems a shame to have it in the payroll office instead of out in the hall, but having a bunch of gold hanging right out there in a public building might draw the wrong kind of attention.

>>2177932
Thanks, glad you're enjoying.

THANK YOU for posting all those pics

Best time I had on this site ever
Also that Azurite, absolutely crazy

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Fairly certain this is a ginkgo leaf.

>>2176988
>>2176992
>>2176995
I've also tentatively identified the coral as belonging to the genus Protaraea.

>>2177948
Your enthusiasm is appreciated.

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>>2177984
Other half.

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Comparing to properly labelled specimens, I think we've got another member of the neuropteris genus here. Not going to bother with the other half, all the detail is on this side.

Also I shot an email to a doctor of Asian art history, so maybe we'll get a little more info on the chopsticks.

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>>2177992
Interesting leaf structure, two small rounded leaves at the base of larger, elongate leaves.

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Gonna finish with this one, I'm a little whipped after spending the afternoon crouched in front of the Nichols display case.

Alethopteris probably

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>>2178002
other half. This one split very nicely, all the positive relief is on one side and all the negative on the other.