Posted 9 years ago
Miner
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This came from a family member that was a geologist working mudlogging for oil and gas. He quit after 10 years of watching others buy land and make millions so he bought some land and made hundereds of millions. He kept a shed behind his house that contained his entire mudloging business and was exactly as he left it when he quit to become a land owner just east of Houston. Ironically, the first one of the land deals included a small airport where a famous murder happened with millions of dollars being the motive. Rumor has it that that money is (or was) buried in that small airstrip and nobody had found it. My family speculates where Paul got the money to by that piece of land and why buy the land that is least likely to produce fossil fuel.
This binocular microscope was one of his favorite tools though he had newer microscopes he used on a daily basis. I have 3 oculars and the original glass plate. All of the moving components are brass and the stationary ones are black metal that appears to be cast. The scope is still functioning but being a geologist myself, I tend towards much more modern microscopes.
I am trying to find the history of this and where they may have been sold in East Texas and what year this was made. We also suspect that old Paul had made a few trips to New York over the years and we are wondering what the distribution was like when this was sold.
I have a lot of other items including some incredible calcite and gypsum "Angle Wing" and cave wall cascaded deposits that weigh 15-30 pounds and would love to find out where these could be shown off and marketed.
