FOS 002
Mosasaur Tooth in Matrix
Location: Unkown (Probably Morocco)
Details: Acquired at the Royal Ontario Museum

So I finally received my photo studio, to help with cataloging all of the collections. To start with I'm going to put up one piece from each of the collections, to give a little taste of what is here. To start off I'm going to be posting a newer specimen in the FOS collection. It's a Mosasaur tooth, theoretically that is.

CC 001
Victory Nickel
Origin: Canada
Unit: Five Cents
Details: About Uncirculated

My first post from the Coin Collection is a 1945 Candadian 'V' nickel (5 cents). I honestly can't remember when and where I acquired this specimen but it was probably at a coin show, collectible shop, or I received it as a gift. The coin was described as 'About Uncirculated.'

HS 001
Brownie Target SIX-16
Era: ca. 1940's-1950's
Details: Black, w/film, Eastman Kodak, dual finders

First off, I have an extensive camera collection so expect some similar posts but these antique cameras are pretty cool. My first camera, and piece from the Historical Significance collection, is an Eastman Kodak Target Six-16 Brownie. I unfortunately can't remember where I acquired this one, it is probably from my Uncle or Grandfather, they have graciously donated many cameras to the museum. This model was made circa 1948, as in they first started to introduce them back in 1946 and discontinued them in 1951. 

PUB 001
The Official Sleepy Steve Cartoon Collection
Media: Floppy Disks
Year: 2005
Details: two disks, a few paper comics

While I don't have too many pieces that belong in publications, I decided this would be placed there rather than in the personal collection as the significance has already made it to the internet. This is one of my favorite pieces simply because of the inscription on the box reading "All on two convenient 3 1/2" floppy disks formatted for Windows 2000 or lower." 

GEO 014
Garnets
Class: Mineral
Location: Wingdale, NY
Details: many small pieces

The first specimen from the geological collection is actually a collection of small garnets. I got this small bag of garnet grains for free a few years back at a Mineral, Fossil, and Gem show in Syracuse, New York. Its chemical formula is Fe3AL2(SiO4)3, making it a silicate. You can clearly see the distinctive red color that garnets are so well known for, in the photo above. It was collected in Wingdale, Dutchess County, New York by Wingdale Materials. I got it a few years back so it was probably collected around 2007-2009, 2009 is the most likely. 

NH 002
Marbled Orb Weaver
Category: Arachnids
Family: Araneidae

I am proud to say that the newest addition to the museum is a new collection of vialed insects and arachnids. So to kick off this new section I present this beast of a spider which my friend Kayla and I managed to find and capture her at Cornell University, down by Beebe Lake. Now we weren't too sure about our on-the-spot identification, but I believe that it may be a Marbled Orb Weaver, possibly Araneus marmoreus. They aren't poisonous but the thing is a bit too big for me to feel comfortable around it. 

HS 002
Magnifico
Era: ca. 2005
Details: gummy peach heart Spanish candy

First off I updated the Kodak Brownie (HS 001) post so you should recheck that. Second is that there will probably be many of these smaller posts of things that aren't all that interesting but need to be posted nonetheless. And remember that this is being posted in HS because that college covers both items of historical and cultural significance, this being of the latter. 

CC 004
$1 Banknote
Origin: Canada
Unit: One Dollar
Details: Unicirculated, no longer in production

So I was going to post up some other random coin for today's exhibit, but decided on presenting you with CC 004 instead of CC 002, which means nothing to you but this one is cooler in my own honest opinion. And I promise you something really cool either tomorrow or Sunday. 

NH 008
Harvestman
Category: Arachnids
Order: Opiliones

Thinking about making Saturdays 'Spider Saturdays,' but we shall see if that will continue . Anyway, technically today's exhibit isn't actually a spider at all despite most everyone calling them spiders. They are, however, arachnids (just not true spiders) and belong to the order Opiliones. I don't know the rest of the classification yet, but if anyone knows how to classify these guys further please just post a comment. 

GEO 018
'Peach Fuzz'
Class: Mineral
Location: Unknown
Details: mineral unknown

So nothing too notable today, in fact I don't even know what this rock/mineral is. You see a few years back, in either 2009 or 2008, there was a yard sale in Newark, New York where a couple of collectors were downsizing their collection as they were moving. This meant high-quality, large, and a big selection of specimens to choose from. I'll be posting more from this collection later on, and will have the actual name of the collection it used to belong to.