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Asbestos Var Mountain Leather

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Asbestos Var Mountain Leather

Ex Groom-Napier, ex Dr. Krantz, Bonn, Germany
With Antique Label

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Locality: 
Tyrol, Austria
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12 × 8 × 0.5 cm
Description

"Mountain leather" is an early popular name for the leather-like varieties of asbestos. Similar material has been called mountain paper, mountain wood, mountain paper, or mountain cork. Here we have a typical, very light plate of this form of asbestos, with some blackish chlorite.
A 19th century classic with on-glued label of notorious Charles Ottley Groom-Napier (1839-1894) alias "Prince of Mantua and Montferrat" ("Mus. M&M"). See his interesting biography on minrecs biographical archive.
Weight: 16 grams

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