Thank you. I believe he must be the collector.
Eric WHite
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From: Bernd Wirth [mailto:B.Wirth@stub.uni-frankfurt.de]
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 1:27 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: Collection Reiber?
Dear Eric,
following the important hint of Jay Dillon I found an entry on Ferdinand
Reiber
in World Biographical Indexes:
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Name: Reiber, Ferdinand
Lebensdaten: 1849-1892
Beruf(e): entomologiste; historien
Gruppe(n): HISTORIKER, ARCHAEOLOGEN, VOELKERKUNDLER, HERALDIKER,
BIOLOGEN, ZOOLOGEN, BOTANIKER
Archiv: Archives Biographiques Françaises
Fiche: I 881,126-130
Titel der Quelle: Sitzmann E. [= Kurztitel]
Dictionnaire de biographie des hommes
célèbres de l'Alsace depuis les temps les
plus reculés, etc / Sitzmann, Edouard. - Rixheim. -
1909-10 (2 vols)
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So long,
Bernd Wirth
"White, Eric" schrieb:
> Colleagues,
>
> I need a lead on the provenance of an item bearing the small circular
stamp
> "Collection Reiber." Indistinct shield motif within. The context makes
me
> think early 19th-century Germany. Information, anyone?
>
> Thanks
>
> Eric White
> Bridwell Library
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