WANTED: Information regarding the origin of a mysterious inventory number on a Forest City meteorite REWARD: We will offer a Boxhole meteoritic iron from the American Meteorite Laboratory with Huss number to the first person who will be able to give us the origin of no. 341, a mysterious inventory number hand-painted on the Forest City meteorite shown here. What we know so far: this complete stone, 95% crusted, with early signs of orientation and weighting 10.15 grams, carries 3 inventory numbers, no. 341 (unknown), H283.6 (Huss no. from the AML) and C101.3 (from the University of New Mexico). The specimen is listed in the UNM Scott et al. (1990) catalogue but not in the UNM LaPaz (1965) catalogue. Huss operated mostly in the 1960s-1970s and provided material to numerous museums. It is thus very likely that the chain-of-custody is as follows: Unknown -> AML/Huss -> UNM. The specimen was deaccessioned from the UNM in recent years. The Forest City meteorite fell in 1890 so no. 341 must date back to 1890-1960. George Kunz described the fall of the meteorite in a paper of 1890 but we already have a specimen from his collection and it does not carry any painted number so it must be from someone else.

Comment by Thomas Hughes: "I believe 341 is from the Field Columbian Museum, in the 1894 catalogue 'Guide to the Field Columbian Museum'. 54 small Forest City individuals were catalogued under this number."

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This is the unknown label for Château-Renard meteorite from The Tricottet Collection




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Please help me identify this label Label size: 9 x 5 cm

Comment by Don Merchant: "Hi Sergey, I was looking at your site of Labels that need to be identified. Below is the picture of the label I can identify. It is mine! A very old first label from around 2000 to 2002. Hope this helps my friend!"

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This unidentified label for Ochansk. The specimen has a corresponding sticker with the tiny number "496" glued on to it. The specimen was acquired by Oscar Monnig. The label itself appears to be circa mid 1900's. Label size: 67 x 45 mm




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Unknown image for Sikhote-Alin meteorite sent by Michael Johnson




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Meteorite comes from the late Ray Suchy Collection, but I do not recognize this label. Any help would be great!




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Unknown label sent to me by Jan Woreczko. Any help with recognizing this label will be appreciated!




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Please help with identifying the number on the 11.92g slice of Kulnine (L6) meteorite

Comment by Mike Bandli: "This appears to be a specimen and number from the Dr. Jim Schwade Collection. See one of my Schwade specimens here with the same format and application: http://historicmeteorites.com/HistoricMeteorites/S-Shelburne.html I would recommend contacting him to be sure."

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Please help to recognize the signature on this label

Comment by Bernhard Kleeberger: "Hello from Bavaria, I think thats the signature of Christian Anger! (that would also fit to the "Christian Anger Meteorite Collection" on the label). First i thought the first letter in the signature is a "M" but i think thats "Ch" and you can also see the "tian" at the end. The second word im sure is Anger. Hope i helped you a bit Best wishes Bernie"

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I need an info about the label on the right. It can be from Steve Shooner Meteorites.

Comment by Jason Utas: "It could be an older Steve Schoner label, but this what what he used later on. http://labels.sv-meteorites.com/default.aspx?person=30 "

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