18th century manuscript mineral specimen labels at Teylers Museum

In their depot, Teylers Museum in Haarlem, the Netherlands, has then-thousands of mineral specimens that, in combination with thousands of handwritten mineral specimen labels, shed light on 18th century mineral collecting.
Teylers Museum has given us permission to reproduce their photos of some of those labels determined by Bert Sliggers.

More information about these labels and about the provenance of the mineralogical and paleontological collections of the Teylers Museum can be found in the thesis of Bert Sliggers "De verzamelwoede van Martinus van Marum (1750-1837) en de ouderdom van de aarde", Leiden, 2017 (in Dutch language only).

all photographs on this page © Teylers Museum Haarlem


Wouter van Doeveren (1730-1783)


Hieronymus David Gaubius (1705-1780)


Arnout Vosmaer (1720-1799)


David Bernhard Rätzer


Barthelemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741 - 1819)


Johannes Conrad Escher von der Linth (1767-1823)


Horace Benedict de Saussure (1740 - 1799)


manuscript label by Martinus van Marum, accompanying the specimen of the top of the Mont Blanc as collected by de Saussure on August 3, 1787 and displayed in the central cupboard in the oval room at Teyler's Museum


collection Johannes le Francq Berkhey (1729-1812)


Adolarius Jacob Forster (1739-1806)


Guillaume Antoine de Luc (1729-1812)


Niels Hoffman Bang (1776-1855)


Heinrich Emanuel Benisch


Johannes Albertus Schlosser (1733-1769) collection Forster


Johann Leonhard Hoffmann (1710 - 1782)