Any advice please?
Shropshire Mines Trust has a large collection of mining artifacts varying
from hand tools to winding engines. Most are metal but some are wood or
other materials. These are either displayed at Snailbeach Mine, stored or
loaned out.
I maintain a spreadsheet of the items and each is individually numbered
but it is getting hard to identify individual items where there are
several of the same kind. We did experiment with painting a number onto
metal items but this looks crude.
Is there a good way of marking artifacts with a unique reference number so
I can track their location and identify each one? There is no point
attaching labels since this looks old fashioned and unsightly. Plus when
the items are moved about the labels will get ripped off. Something like a
marker pen would be great but I doubt that ordinary ones would write well
on rusty metal.
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Adrian Pearce
BRITISH MINING DATABASE
http://britishmining.org.uk
SHROPSHIRE MINES TRUST
http://shropshiremines.org.uk
SNAILBEACH MINE
http://snailbeachmine.org.uk
TANKERVILLE MINE
http://shropshiremines.org.uk/tankerville/tankerville.htm
NAMHO CONFERENCE 2006
http://namhoconference.org.uk
MINES IN CYPRUS
http://shropshiremines.org.uk/cyprus/cyprus.htm
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