Last month, we asked the public for help identifying a piece of our collection.
The identity of a plaster cast of a gold nugget in the Section of Minerals had been lost to time. It was believed to be one of six casts of famous gold nuggets acquired by the museum from Ward’s Natural Science Establishment in 1897.
Collections managers Marc and Deb Wilson were digging through some more old records recently and discovered that our unknown gold nugget is a replica of a nugget found at Anvil Creek near Nome, Alaska in September, 1899.
Mystery solved!
