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This galena from Pente has done a real world trip. Found at Pente near Osnabrück/Lower Saxony it came to the Munich collector Willy Hirsch. As you see, there are some french additions on the label. These were written by the Paris mineral dealer Neree Boubee. Then the Sorbonne bought the specimen, sold it later to the German dealer Fritz Krantz. It was bought then from the collector Richartz in Cologne, who left it to the Berlin mineral dealer Klaus Lenz from whom I finally got it... (Author: Andreas Gerstenberg)