Ordinary chondrite (H5) Fell 30 January 1868 Warsaw, Poland Crusted part slice (0.76 grams) with antique Krantz label (post 1888) in an original pasteboard box. The slice stands upright on a piece of a match, where it was affixed on the label on the back wall inside the box.

Ordinary chondrite (H5)
Fell 30 January 1868
Warsaw, Poland
Crusted part slice (0.76 grams) with antique Krantz label (post 1888) in an original pasteboard box. The slice stands upright on a piece of a match, where it was affixed on the label on the back wall inside the box.

“Published biographies of Dr George F Kunz (1856-1932) reveal him to have been a man of many talents who was highly respected and influential in scientific and intellectual circles of New York City.  His adult formal education was completed at Cooper’s Union, a unique and prestigious institution of the time.  Kunz was specifically inclined toward gemology and became known thoughout the world as an expert in that field.  According to Glenn Huss, “George Kunz’s collection of meteorites was one of the two meteorite collections that formed the nucleus of the Field Museum of Natural History collection of meteorites””(Ellis Peck, Space Rocks and Buffalo Glass, pgs59-60)