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Be an influencer with your very own exhibit! Showing off your personal collection in a display case exhibit at club shows & meetings is a great opportunity to share who you are, show off your interests, and to inspire others to do the same. This activity is open to all members.
Display any fossils, minerals, crystals, gemstones, lapidary specimens and gemstone jewelry. Stone art, artifacts, tools to name a few other ideas. It could be purchased or collected yourself. You can just have it as a couple small things or as a large collection. As long as it’s relevant to the Club, have fun and be creative with your theme! It‘s your artistic expression.
Labeling is the only real crucial component in the exhibit. The reason is because a label serves to identify the specimen via Name & Locality. Scroll further down to learn more about how to do labeling.
The basic format requires just 2 pieces of info:
Fossils require a couple extra pieces of info:
Sharing its location gives some useful information for a collector or even for a novice viewing it. They’ll like to learn that you found this in the Adirondacks, or in Pennsylvania, or a mine in Utah, for example.
The basic format required for labels is just Name & Locality
An expanded format looks like this:
TITLE: Mineral (or Fossil) Specimen
NAME:
LOCALITY:
TIME PERIOD (fossil only)
FORMATION (fossil only)
COLLECTED BY:
DATE:
Always keep the label that comes with your purchased specimen, so you can carry that label either as your display label, or choose to make your own labels with the information from it.
- Chinese Proverb (Keith, probably)
If you’d like to read more about Display Case rules and how to’s, documentation is available in the Library
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