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Title: Relics from the Rockies.
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: H.H. Tammen Company.
Subjects: Mail-order business--Catalogs Taxidermy--Catalogs Trade catalogs--Mail-order business Trade catalogs--Taxidermy.
Publisher: H.H. Tammen Company, Denver, Col.
Contributing Library: Winterthur Museum Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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rare mineral, of a metallicdull gray color; occurring in very few parts of the world, and generally combined with goldand silver to form rich ores, and also with nickel and mercury to form the tellurides of thosemetals. This specimen contains the telluride of gold. Lead Carbonate. From the famous Robert E. Lee mine of Leadville. This is a sam-ple specimen of the ores that made Leadville famous, and is generally rich in silver and occursin vast deposits. Rhomb Spar. (Golden, Colorado.) Burns to quick-lime like calcite and affords amore durable cement. The white, massive variety is used extensively as marble. Garnet. (Near Salida, Colorado.) This specimen is part of a Garnet of recent discovery,occurring in dodecahedral crystals of remarkable size, one specimen weighing U pounds. Price, Express Paid, to any part of the United States, $ ; .35.Address H. H. TAMMEN, Sixteenth and Curtis Streets, Denver, Colo. RELICS FROM THE ROCKIES. TAMMENS APEX MINERAL CABINET 48 ROCKY MOUNTAIN MINERALS.
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^aw^ssfcfcs^N^wtf ^^>j^q^^^i6s^ss^ M/LIS£#8.C0.Size II inches long by 8 inches wide. Read description on next page RELICS FROM THE ROCKIES. TAMMENS APEX CABINET. 48 Rocky Mountain Minerals. ONLY $2.95 EXPRESS PAID. (See Illustration on opposite page.)The full page cut gives some idea of this beautiful cabinet, showing how theminerals, ores, agates, etc., are arranged. The actual size of case containingspecimens is 11 in. long by 8 in. wide. The only possible way that I am able tosell this cabinet at$2.95 is that I carry in stock over 75 tons of different specimensall the time; gather them in large quantities, and living right here in the heartof the Rockies, the largest mineral-producing country in the world, my businessis so large that the Express Companies give me a special rate. In proof ofwhich I refer you to Wells-Fargo and Pacific Express Companies. You willnotice that the case contains forty-eight compartments, in each of which is aloose specimen, on which a number is secur

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