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Limonite

Paul August Kessselmeyer (1813 - 1897)
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 4.5 × 2 cm
Description

A very interesting sculptural limonite (bog iron ore) specimen.

From the collection of Paul August Kesselmeyer, Frankfurt (1813-1897)

Comes with his original handwritten label - PAK ( Paul August Kesselmeyer ) signed about 1850/70
And an other one, probably from the Senckenberg Museeum Frankfurt

Paul August Kesselmeyer was a german botanist  and mineralogist in Frankfurt

He donated his botanic and mineralogical collection in 1893 to the Senckenberg Museeum in Frankfurt.

Antique sample with excellent provanace.

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