old label in German

Can anyone help me with this label? I know this part: “ . . . with native Bismuth from Schneeberg/Saxony.” The first word is “skutterudite,” but I can’t make out the second letter of that script, and I can’t get the second word (in parentheses) at all.

I am also having trouble with the words at the lower left, but assume it refers to being collected in 1860.

The specimen is arborescent bismuth, and photos should be in the gallery. I will post some as soon as I get all the information from this label.

Thanks in advance.

Norman King





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/14/2012 03:16AM by Norman King.

Hi Norman:
The Label read as follows:
"Speiskobalt (GESTRECKT)
...........
SAMMLUNG (=Smlg) Graf Rekquisition 1860
It is:
Gestreckt = stretched
...........
Collection Graf requisition 1860


Hope this help!
Ruth

Hi!

No, it rather means "gestrickt" (knitted).

Best regards,
Franz

in addition ... on the lower left:

Samlg. Graf Rek (Rex?) 1860

"collection Graf ..." (name or title "count") and the year, of course

Just googled and found a family dynasty "von Rex", see [de.wikipedia.org]).
Saxony would fit, incidence?

Thank you all for your help. I have the mineralogic information from the label now.

After more study I decided the "Rex" in the lower left really is Rex and not Rek (as in Rekquisition), so it may indeed be from a "Graf Rex" (apparently short for Graf von Rex), as Christian said, a real German Count from the 19th Century. However, I guess we do not know for sure whose collection this was. I will simply post the label as a daughter photograph, and people can form their own conclusions. I acquired the specimen from Christian Rewitzer, and he is good at proper attribution of historic specimens, but could not make an attribution for this one.

I have a bit more photography to do, and will upload photos soon to the bismuth and skutterudite galleries.

There is also a "Graf von Rex GmbH" which (among other things) is in the metal processing business, maybe they are related:
[www.rex-industrie-produkte.de]

Vik