Two exceptional historic specimens of the Florence University Museum, recently restored

During a mining campaign carried out in September 1881 in the famous Grotta d'Oggi mine in san Piero in Campo (Elba Island, Italy), hygiene professor Giorgio Roster (1843-1927) from Florence, together with his friend and partner of excavations Bista Toscanelli (1855-1882) and the famous miner Luigi Celleri (1828-1900), discovered perhaps the largest and most beautiful crystallized cavity of tourmalines and pegmatite minerals ever found on the Island of Elba. Among others, 2 spectacular specimens were extracted. At the beginning of 1882 the two samples were sold to the Museum of the University of Florence, where they have been kept to this day representing probably the most valuable specimens of the collections (Inv. # E4970 and E4973). Recently, the Museum, thanks to a collaboration with the specialized company MCP, carried out the cleaning and complete restoration of the specimens, for their next exposure in the Specola exhibition.