Bruner Collection No. 8

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>>2205727
Dragonflies, including Green Darner, Water Prince, and a damselfly

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>>2205731
more "Tropical Butterflies"

>>2205735
Oh wow those are nice sized it looks like.
I always wanted to pin butterfly's but could never get myself to kill one.
I can skin rattlesnakes without issues but butterfly's just seemed wrong.

So how close are we to the drawers on broken tracks?

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>>2205735
Male and female tiger swallowtails

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>>2205743
"Walking Stick"
>>2205740
We're a ways to go yet I'm afraid. It's just so much easier to work on the drawers that I can get open with no fuss than to bug the facilities guy to come fix this ancient cabinet.

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>>2205758

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>>2205759
Male and female luna moths

Been lurking since the first thread, what a weird and wild ride. Keep 'em coming anon, I love these bizarrely-comfy peerings into the archives of a dead naturalist hoarder.

>>2205735
>THESE ARE TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES.

These labels...

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>>2205765
Don't worry, this one has no label

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>>2205771
Hummingbird moths. For whatever reason she has these described as Lined Evening Lover AND Striped Morning Sphinx AND Hummingbird Moth AND Deilephila lineata AND Celerio lineata

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>>2205778
She seems to have made these cases herself out of the boxes her stockings came in.

>>2205778
Looks like the big ones my bearded dragon used to love to catch.

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>>2205781

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There's tons of these things in here. This is the biggest.

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>>2205802
>>2205764
Your enthusiasm is much appreciated

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>>2205806
These are pretty cool looking though

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>>2205815

Always loved mother of pearl.
Are these just "normal" ones or are they ancient?

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The rest of this drawer is full of paper goods. These are all calendars for 1913, I don't know if they actually came from asia or if they're just oriental style

>>2205820
They're definitely modern. I dont think I've ever heard of mop surviving fossilization.

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He may have been a teacher of some sort after all. This looks like someone's homework he was grading.

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>>2205821
>>2205821
These are old Christmas cards. I assume they're actually from Japan or made by a japanese company, based on the flag in that second one down in the left column

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>>2205832

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>>2205833
On the other hand, this was an age where it was fashionable to be a weeb, so they could just as easily have been made stateside to satisfy consumer demand for asiany looking things

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These must have come out of an old display of his.

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This guy definitely voted for Teddy Roosevelt.

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>>2205848
No idea why he kept this.

>>2205821
iridescent ammonites are ammonites with the MOP intact

>>2205924
I thought iridescence in fossils was the result of opal replacing the original hard parts of the animal?

Paper is cool as always, nice time capsule in their own rights.

>>2205820
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haliotis

>that mounting
>those labels

He tried, I guess.
I could show off our universities collection which has some really nice specimens dating back to the 50s when they could still be collected without permit but I don't have a decent camera on me right now and this thread isn't for that anyway.

>>2206087
Oh also if you need any help with closer identification of anything arthropod related (down to genus or at least family label) just ask OP, I'll be watching this thread, haven't been on /an/ in a while and these are really fascinating!

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>>2206090
What do you think about this sawfly from a few threads ago? Locale is Creed Colorado.

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>>2206426
Ditto on this one

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Since I didn't break anything last time they've asked me to take care of another case.

Mammillar goethite. Niaca, Chihuahua, Mexico.

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>>2206442

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Stalactitic goethite, Chihuahua, Mexico.

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>>2206446

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Columbite, an oxide of iron, manganese, and niobium.

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>>2206451
Specular hematite. Elba, Italy.

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Iridescent hematite. Locale unknown.

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Apatite. Buckingham, Quebec.

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>>2206463
White apatite w/ chalcopyrite. Locale unknown.

>>2206445
>>2206446
that's pretty cool. its like bubbles made solid

>>2206426
I'm not entirely sure that's a sawfly. Image quality is kinda bad but the head morphology reminds me more of a Dipetran than a Hymenopteran.
Does it have hindwings or halteres?

>>2206429
Same for that one, how many wings does it have? Also how do the antennae look? Short with just 3 segments, the last one being big and bulbous with one long hair sticking out, short with many similar segments or long with many segments?

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>>2206510
And because it can be confusing here is an image of what I mean by 3 segment antenna. The long think sticking out is a hair, not antenna segments.

So what's the story on this one?
This is crazy cool

>>2205816
>>2205815
>>2205806
>>2205802

These are abalone shells.

>>2205735
Morpho sp.

>>2205771
Hyalophora (likely species cecropia)

>>2205778
Hyles lineata

>>2207743
Top one is Morpho helenor. Bottom one could be Morpho menelaus.

>>2205946

Nacreous shell structures (thin, interleaved organic and mineral laminae), often survive fossilisation in shales and clays as the geochem is wrong for wholesale dissolution and replacement.

Opalisation is comparatively rare.

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Rhodochrosite slice. This came from a dealer in 1964, the bill of sale indicates its from 13000 feet down in the "Andes Mts of Argentina". That really nails it down.

>>2206510
I only have a letter from the student he bought the fossils from referencing the presence of a sawfly species recently (at the time) described by Dr. Cockerell of Colorado University. I'm sorry about the image quality, that's about the limit of the camera I'm using. It doesn't have any hindwings that I can spot

>>2207713
>>2207743
>>2207832
Thanks, I've adjusted the catalog to reflect this information.

>>2208710
Neat.

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Petrified palm from near Colorado River.

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Agate, from Escondillo Mt. area

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>>2210148
Very glassy.

>>2210143
>Rhodochrosite slice
nice baconite, m8

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>>2210149
This one was purchased also. For some reason the bill of sale appears to be a soldier's expense slip or something.

>>2210143
Looks...tasty.

>>2210143
>It doesn't have any hindwings that I can spot
In that case it's now a sawfly (which are Hymenopterans, which have 4 wings) and an actual fly instead, which have 2 wings. Though I can't say anything beyond that.

Also that mineral really does look like ham.

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>>2210154
>>2210157

That's nothing, get a load of this. Looks like it ought to be on a charcuterie plate.

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Terminated K-spar crystal. Colorado.

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Thunder egg, Agate Creek, AU.

You can see how the thing was rotated as it was being filled with the way some of the chalcedony layers fan out.

Ty for taking the time to do this OP this is nice stuff ty ty friend ty

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Geode slice. There's ALOT of lapidary-type crap in this drawer, so if that doesn't turn you own, brace yourself.

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>>2210250

>>2210264
Granite countertops are overrated- I want one made it of this.

I know a thread or 2 ago I said that geodes are overrated, but I really love geodes.
>>2210146
Love this piece
>>2210151
That's just weird. I guess sometime you just have to work with what you have on hand...

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Now that I've seen a few coral geodes, I think this piece might be one or a normal geode from the same area.

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>>2210330
Got some barnacles on the outside.

>>2210143
Post more bugs and I can ID them for you.

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Agatized wood from the petrified forest near Adamana, Apache Co, Arizona. Collected 1938

>>2210345
Those 2 fossils and Mrs. Bruner's insect collection are all that I know of.

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>>2210383

>>2210151
Paper stock used to be a lot more expensive, so using cheap military surplus is pretty commonplace, especially post-war.

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Polished rhodochrosite egg. I question its placement in the cabinet, this thing is a desk ornament at best.

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Another riverstone w/ fault-offset laminations. The fault plane in this one has been mineralized.

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Octahedral fluorite.

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Muscovite.

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>>2211143
No locale is listed, but a great deal of his muscovite specimens seem to have come from the Etta Mine in S.D.

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Found more shells...

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>>2211158

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>>2211159

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Pyromorphite

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Hopeite. Broken Hill, N. Rhodesia

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Brazilianite w/ muscovite. Minas Gerais, Brazil.

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Ludlamite. Blackbird Mine, Idaho.

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Wavellite. New Jersey.

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Vivianite. Lemhi Co, Idaho.

Nothing today?

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Mr and Mrs Bruner may have been planning to give away these next specimens. They had a bundle of cards to go with them

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>>2211911

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>>2211912

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Another specimen of Pecopteris

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Aphlebia.

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>>2211941

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Annularia stellata
>>2211914
I have trouble imagining a 40 foot horsetail, but I bet it was a sight to behold

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>>2211969

"What should we get Harold and Marie for Christmas, Honey?"

"Hell if I know. They're the rock people right?"

"Yeah that's them."

"Yeah every damn year their Christmas cards are just a bunch of pictures of them out collecting rocks."

"Let's just get them one of those carved rocks that Lee carves."

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"Sandstone 'casts', cemented together with lime."

If I'm not mistaken, "lime" is an archaic term for carbonate.

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More annularia. We seem to be firmly back in carboniferous fossil territory.

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>>2212012
This one looks just like a cannabis leaf.

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The color and luster of this fellow makes me think some pyrite replacement has taken place

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>>2212030

>>2212031
These continue to be the highest quality threads on /an/, if not all of 4chan. Thanks anon, I want you to know that we're enjoying this.

>>2205727
this >>2213693

Thanks for actually contributing.

>>2211035
It looks like really rich, pink rhodochrosite, though. Way pinker than the dishwater specimens at my rock shop.

>>2213693

Quite a few of us lurkers agree. TYOP

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Large neuropteris leaf.

>>2213693
>>2213697
>>2214182
Your enthusiasm is much appreciated

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Single little cluster of annularia leaves w/ the impression of the stalk.

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A rare labelled specimen: Pecopteris strongii.

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>>2215732

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Neuropteris (I think) w/ short, rounded pinnules

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Wee little pecopteris

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Small annularia w/ impression of fern frond to the right.

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From Grapevine Canyon, Mormon Lake Area, 25 miles south of Flagstaff. Collected 1964.

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>>2215779
This looks to be mostly neuropteris parts but i think that might be a bit of a ginkgo leaf just to the right of the bottom of the frond.

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Slice of a geode.

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>>2215785
Got felt feet on the bottom. For some reason I feel a compelling urge to use it as a coaster...

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Seed from a seed fern. Mazon Creek, Illinois.

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Pecopteris with pretty broad pinnules

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"Segment of conifer twig"

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To all my fellow collectors, I think we should invest in bubble wrap or somesuch to pad our cases. Whatever kind of foam he laid out in these drawers really didn't stand the test of time.

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>>2215830

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>>2215835

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Macroneuropteris. Coal City, IL

>>2215830
Looks like the stuff they used to use for headliners in the 70's/80's.
Stuff just explodes when you touch it after if ages for 20 years.

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Big old pecopteris.

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>>2215893
this one really needs to go on display

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Annularia sphenophylloides. Coal City, Illinois.

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>>2215902

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I'm not really sure what this is. Based on the overall shape of the larger structure and the little whispey things radiating out from it I'd guess it's a bristleworm fossil. Such animals are apparently pretty abundant in the Mazon Creek area.

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>>2215926

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Don't know what this one is either, but comparing to pictures of fossils from the area with a positive ID on them, I think it could be a coprolite from an herbivore. The white thing on the left I think is a seed.

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And this one I just have no idea. It's got a metallic glint to it.

>>2215926
>>2215928
>>2215946
appear to be shrimp

>>2215946
Stegosaurus embryo.
Obviously petrified egg.

Alright I'm kidding, but that's what I see. Its like the ink blot test.

So how close are we to the broken shelves?

>>2215978
For real? Can you elaborate on that? I don't really see it.

>>2215996
I'm at 35/50 drawers now. Won't be much longer.

>>2215830
>>2215835
>>2215836
Oh god, this is giving me flashbacks of pulling up ancient shag carpet at my mom's house. The foam underneath had degraded like that and stuck to the floors (which were very pretty hardwood, why the hell you'd cover that with shag is beyond me). There was also astroturf glued to the front and back porches.

Anyway, great thread as usual, OP.

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Egg of some sort, courtesy of "BW Buxton" again. It might say "Panama" on the bottom there, but I can't quite make it out

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Pear made of polished jasper (I think). The green stripe on the lower right appears to be a vein that developed later on, it extends through the whole piece.

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"Sept 12 1997. Rocks from Coast of Gerrard Beach, Eastern Cape Cod, Mass. Outermost house, Henry Beston Beach"

That's what I think it says anyway.

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>>2216811

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>>2216812
This is the only one that really caught my eye as interesting. The dark spot in the middle is a "snowball garnet", a garnet that was spun as it grew during metamorphism. One of the professors emeritus here made his name with studies on using snowball garnets to determine the timing of tectonic activity during metamorphism.

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>>2216813
This was in the bag with the rocks. He bought a few postcards at a museum gift shop two days before he collected these.

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This thing had its own wooden stand, but the glue has deteriorated and it fell off. The green stuff is probably malachite, the blueish stuff could be chrysocolla or shattuckite.

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>>2216824

>>2216825
Now why aren't wedding rings make with something beautiful like this?

>>2216824
Deffo not malachite, rather, a blue-green agate.
Less likely in old collections - but a lot of modern shop stuff is dyed. I hate that shit with a passion.

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It's either a sea star or a young Poseidon's very first attempt at a trident.

>>2217164
That's a good point. I took it for a copper mineral because it had some heft to it, but it could just be dyed agate.

>>2216967
MASSIVE marketing campaign after WWII that pushed diamonds as the only acceptable wedding stone.
Kind of tragic.

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Another yellowstone agate.

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Graywacke I guess. Collected from "Sky Meadows" in February of 78. I suspect that alot of these unremarkable rocks were just personal keepsakes from vacations he took.

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Conifer twig fossils. No locale listed, but they seem to be lithologically similar to those fossils from Creede CO.

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Whatever this thing is.

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>>2218099

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>>2218100
It came from China.

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>>2218102
Had a bead necklace in it.

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>>2218105
Along with about 20 or 30 cents in pennies from the 60s and 70s

>>2218100
>>2218102
>>2218105
From an anthro standpoint this is cool.
Just because there's a reason behind this, even if only Mr. Bruner knew what it was.
I doubt he was using the (rack? Cupboard?) As a nightstand, so this was done on purpose.

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And here's this thing. That point turns out to be rather sharp, holding it like that probably wasn't my best idea.

>>2218115
I think it originally had a lid. The bit on the lower right side of the bucket in >>2218100
appears to be the remains of a hinge

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>>2218120
Whatever it is it has a clearly defined front. You've got the jeweled bit here with the filigree arranged around it.

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>>2218126
On the other two sides the filigree wraps around toward the jewel.

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>>2218127

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And let's wrap up with yet another thing that I can't identify. Appears to be wood. Those white structures strike me as foreign bodies but they're spaced rather regularly.

>>2218144
OK that's creepy

>>2218144
Some kind of tree infection or disease..?

>>2218438
I don't know anymore than you do man

>>2218144
I would guess sea creature. Bryozoan, or coral something.

>>2218105
I have that exact same mouse. Excellent choice, friendo

>>2218144
If it really is terrestrial my guess would be Lycopodiales. Dont let their modern wimpy appearance fool you.

>>2213693

This, I dont come round here often, but youre doing a service for the community no mod could ever, you are the change.
Keep on truckin amigo

>>2218120
Looks like a hat pin?

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Native copper, Ajo Arizona.

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Some alteration minerals on the side here.

>>2218453
Yeah I like how feature-rich it is for the price. Has everything your average user wants or needs.

>>2218467
I'll show some zoomed in pictures in a moment. It's got a very plant fiber-y structure to it at the broken surface.

>>2218556
You flatter me sir.

>>2218561
Seems awfully large to be a hat pin, but I suppose hats could get pretty big back then.

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>>2218802
>>2218467
Alright here we have the base

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>>2218805
and a little farther up, where it's sort of coming apart in layers.

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Turgite. Mexico.

>>2218810
I really like this one for some reason

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BEHOLD THE EFFIGY OF THE STORM CROW. GAZE NOT INTO ITS EYES PUNY MORTAL!

In all seriousness I can't tell you much about this. It seems to be made from a bull's horn. I don't know if this is a decoration or a religious object or just a piece of folk art.

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>>2218819
The stand looks like its made from bone

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>>2218820

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>>2218822
One eye is missing. The nostrils and the eyes appear to be the same material.

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"Mass of sea bottom in which are bodies of crinoids-all with arms broken off. Bruner 1932"

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>>2218836

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>>2218838
Broken mollusk shell w/ some druze is present as well.

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>>2218805
>>2218807
Definitely looks a lot like Equisetum. Is the inside "hollow"? Of course now it's filled with whatever replaced the air inside but does the inside have structure or is it just sediment that filled in the hollow space?

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Bag of cholla cactus pieces. These were evidently intended as yard decor, there's a piece of paper with them noting that they will last outside, as will the wooden rings he purchased.

>>2218846
They seem hollow to me, w/ a white infill.

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Large cephalopod shell

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Some large slices coming up

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>>2218899

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>>2218900

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>>2218905

>>2218910

Segueing right into the next one