[Rockhounds] specimen labels

[Tim Fisher]

I used templates from Excel that hooked into Word. If you can do VBA macros
it's not all that hard.

Tim Fisher
Http://OreRockOn.com 
Email nospam at orerockon.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Rockhounds [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com] On
Behalf Of Edward Tindell
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2021 2:28 PM
To: 'Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors'
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] specimen labels

I have a large (15,000+) curated collection in ~300 mineral flats. I use
Excel to make my labels. Each label is small enough so that it will fit in
the bottom of a 1" X 1" white folding box. All my specimens are in boxes or
some other type of container. It is placed loosely in the box either
standing up along a side or laying down flat on the bottom. I do not attach
labels to my specimens as you can't study the spot under the label and
everything I have ever tried to mark specimens with has eventually reacted
(in some way) with different specimens. I print them on a laser printer on
plain white typing paper (nothing fancy) and there are 96 to a page. I have
templates that I can use to produce 96 identical labels by filling out only
one or 96 different labels by filling out each individually. Each label has
five lines: 1) Specimen Name, 2) Locality Name, 3) County, State names, 4)
Collectors name, and 5) Date of collection. Most of my collection is
self-collected and the labels provide full provenance for each specimen. I
sometimes add notes to the back of the label by hand, especially if the
specimen was acquired in a purchase (price paid), a swap (with whom), a gift
(by whom), or prize (event name), GPS coordinates where found, or whether a
specimen is rare in general, rare for the locality, fluorescent, radiative,
magnetic, or metallic (sets off a metal detector). If you would like to use
my templates please send me an email and I will send them to you in a *.zip
file. They will be *.xlsx worksheets with no macros.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rockhounds [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com] On
Behalf Of J. R. Hodel
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2021 12:33 PM
To: rockhounds at rockhounds.drizzle.com
Subject: [Rockhounds] specimen labels

I have been told by a trustworthy source that ink-jet ink cannot be used as
it will be affected by humidity eventually, but that laser black ink is
waterproof. Also that tiny 5 point labels with just a specimen number should
be glued with white glue to the actual specimen, white glue being water
soluble to remove the label when needed, and the specimen number on the tiny
label will link the actual rock to the larger complete label with the
mineral source, etc.
I personally collect rather than curate, so I gave up being organized past
keeping source labels with purchased rocks and remembering where I dug my
personally collected rocks. 

I know, bad me! 
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