MAKE A MEME View Large Image Sepiolite-469730.jpg Sepiolite Dimensions 3 x 2 5 x 2 5 Locality Eskişehir Province Central Anatolia Region Turkey Old specimen with five old labels of Meerschaum sea foam in essence Sepiolite from Turkey used for carving smoking pipes and ...
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Keywords: Sepiolite-469730.jpg Sepiolite Dimensions 3 x 2 5 x 2 5 Locality Eskişehir Province Central Anatolia Region Turkey Old specimen with five old labels of Meerschaum sea foam in essence Sepiolite from Turkey used for carving smoking pipes and other gee-gaws Forms as nodules in red clay then cleaned and dried and carved Turkey banned export of the nodules in the 1970s to encourage the growth of home-grown meerschaum pipe carving but only managed to kill off the European meerschaum pipe carving industry More of this fascinating story on Wikipedia Details on the five labels for this specimen old hand-written unintelligible owner name J Kenneth Fisher Upper Darby PA John S Albanese Union NJ J Cilen and a modern label Sepiolith Größe 3 x 2 5 x 2 5 ; entspricht 7 62 x 6 35 x 6 35 cm Fundort Provinz Eskişehir Region Zentralanatolien Türkei http //www mindat org/photo-469730 html 2012-06-08 http //www mindat org/user-13767 html 0 John Krygier John Krygier Sepiolite Files by John Krygier from mindat Mineral hand samples
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