[meteorite-list] 99 Luft-bottles - sitting in my cabinet drawer

From: Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:47:03 -0400
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=uYSjJoFL+DT949MF0Xo_=Ed0Qxw_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the kind words. Now that you mention it, it is sort of
"steampunkish", I like that. :)

Unfortunately, nobody ever gets to see this collection of vials. The
drawers stay hidden inside my specimen cabinet. At one time, I had
the little vials out on a display shelf, and I loved how that looked.
But, over time, the number of vials grew beyond what the little shelf
could hold. I would have installed another shelf, but now that my
grandson turned two, I figured it was best to pick them up and keep
them stored safely away - out of his curious reach. All it took was
for me to imagine him bumping into the shelf and dozens of little
glass vials falling onto the floor and breaking, with hammer falls and
exotic crumbs scattered all over the room. LOL

Best regards,

MikeG

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On 4/28/11, Dark Matter <freequarks at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> The bottles and corks makes me think of what happens when a 21st century
> meteorite collection collides with a steampunk enthusiast.
>
> A great retro display!
>
> -Martin
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Michael Gilmer
> <meteoritemike at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi List,
>>
>> I finished converting my micromount storage from 3ml glass vials to
>> 5ml glass vials - the latter have a larger storage capacity and have a
>> wider neck to accomodate larger fragments. I keep most of my tiny
>> frags, crumbs, and dust in these glass vials. As of now, I have 2
>> drawers filled with about 48 bottles each - this holds the majority of
>> my micromount inventory. On average, each vial will hold about 2-5g
>> of material, depending on the size of the fragments.
>>
>> I like these small bottles because they are air-tight, compact, and
>> they let me see the contents at a glance. I also like the "old
>> school" look of glass with corks.
>>
>> On the right is the NWA drawer, which holds all of my NWA micros. On
>> the left is the drawer that holds named finds and falls (or non-NWA
>> Saharans)
>>
>>
>

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Received on Thu 28 Apr 2011 09:47:03 PM PDT