Some of my favourite pieces in my collection - my favourite out of them is definitely the gryolite on prehnite (the green specimen that looks like a weird fungus)2yr ⋅ geoboiii ⋅ r/MineralPorn
Gryolite on Prehnite from Malad, India. Very strange crystals but a cool specimen4yr ⋅ geoboiii ⋅ r/MineralPorn
Blue Sodalite, Langesundsfjord, Norway. Nothing special but I love the deep blue of this piece4yr ⋅ geoboiii ⋅ r/MineralPorn
Part of my antique microscope collection - I could do with more display room (couldn’t we all??)2yr ⋅ geoboiii ⋅ r/Antiques
Sat alone in a room weighing wet rocks for 2 hours with kit older than me.. apparently this is what I signed up for3yr ⋅ geoboiii ⋅ r/geology
Three early 20th century English microscopes in my collection. Not much practical use out of them, but they do look good!3yr ⋅ geoboiii ⋅ r/Antiques
While the microscope vs telescope war rages on, I present an antique “microtelescope”... an average microscope at best and a very poor telescope4yr ⋅ geoboiii ⋅ r/telescopes
Some recently purchased antique thin sections of varying rocks. I’ve always found old microscope slides so beautiful, anyone else?4yr ⋅ geoboiii ⋅ r/Antiques
Finally got a ‘proper’ camera set up on my microscope! Not bad for a £15 adapter and an £85 vintage microscope. Here’s a few quick pictures I took under XPL3yr ⋅ geoboiii ⋅ r/geology
A brass Society of the Arts style microscope (circa 1900) and original case4yr ⋅ geoboiii ⋅ r/Antiques
Improvised set-up allowed me to photograph this whole granite thin section under cross-polarised light!3yr ⋅ geoboiii ⋅ r/MicroPorn
A few old books I’ve had for a while, I love the old prints in books like this4yr ⋅ geoboiii ⋅ r/Antiques
A cool little antique geological map of the Thames Basin - I wonder how useful this would be to a modern geologist4yr ⋅ geoboiii ⋅ r/geology
Dolerite (Pouk Hill, Walsall ,England) under XPL - would I be correct to say this displays ophitic texture?3yr ⋅ geoboiii ⋅ r/geology
An unlabelled thin section I recently acquired - any suggestions as to what the name of this rock would be? All images are under XPL with ~1mm field of view. Thanks!3yr ⋅ geoboiii ⋅ r/geology
