small wooden box of cyanite flakes
Date: circa 1900
Inventory Number: 4947
Classification: Mineral
Subject:
Maker: American
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Dimensions:
2 x 4 x 2.8 cm (13/16 x 1 9/16 x 1 1/8 in.)
Description:
Small oval quartered pine box with red tint inside and brown paper label on lid, containing two flakes of cyanite, blue-white crystals.
Signedunsigned
Inscribedlabel on box lid: Cyanite / 85-927 Harvard / Gorham, Me.
bottom of box: Cyanite
bottom of box: Cyanite
FunctionMinerology.
From Webster's 1913 unabridged: "Cyanite: n. [See Cyanic.] (Min.) A mineral occuring in thin- bladed crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of aluminium. [Written also kyanite.]."
From Webster's 1913 unabridged: "Cyanite: n. [See Cyanic.] (Min.) A mineral occuring in thin- bladed crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of aluminium. [Written also kyanite.]."