Ah yes, but the real question is how did you get the accession numbers onto the (presumably small) scales of rust? :-) By the way, don't forget that there is a whole country called Chad, probably established long before a chad was a punch out piece of paper on a Floridian ballot card. See: http://www.africaguide.com/country/chad/index.htm For our readers who are not in the USA, Spain or Cuba, the "Maine" was a US battleship that blew up in Havana harbour, Cuba in 1898,just before the Spanish American War. See: http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/stream/faq45-11.htm http://www.angelfire.com/fl/battleshipmaine/ for photo. http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/remember.html for another photo Colin Macgregor Stevens, Curator, Burnaby Village Museum, Burnaby, British Columbia, CANADA E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: (604) 293-6504 FAX: (604) 293-6525 Museum web site: http://www.burnabyparksrec.org/villagemuseum/villagemuseum.html > -----Original Message----- > From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On > Behalf Of Jenny Yearous > Sent: December 4, 2000 15:01 ... > I can top a chad or a sliver of wood.... we have rust scales from > the Maine. I kid you not and yes they are accessioned. > > Jenny Yearous > Curator of Collections Management > State Historical Society of North Dakota> State Historical Society of North Dakota ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).