Collection Management VI: The Label, part 4 (last)

What else goes on this little label?

I write a small description of the specimen at the bottom, such as:

• Gray metallic massive
• Pencil-shaped crystals
• Green, pink, and blue Xtals on matrix [Xtals = crystals]
• Blue XOM [XOM = crystals on matrix]
• Blue mXOM [mXOM = microscopic crystals on matrix]
• Massive; from type locality
• Heavy!
• Fragile! Don't touch Xtals!
• Water soluble white XOM
• Poisonous gray octahedra OM
• Radioactive yellow powdery OM
• et cetera.
  

That is, the description should be a short version of anything you would say to a beginning collector who wanted to look at the specimen.

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Also, you may want a border, signature, or "from the collection of..." statement on each of your labels.

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I put indexing information on the back of my labels. I am a systematic collector, so the label gets the Dana numbers (from Dana's System of Mineralogy, currently in its eighth edition) for each of the minerals present.