Rummaging in the warehouse attic recently, I stumbled across two wooden boxes (see figure 1) filled with assorted ugly minerals. They were old, wire-bound fruit crates that once held minerals of exceptional beauty, left with me many years ago when Excalibur operated out of Dover, New Jersey in the mid-1970s. The hand-written addresses immediately brought back memories of two foreign visitors I hadentertained as part of on-going exchanges with Dr. Paul Sainfeld (sainfeldite) at the Musee de Mineralogie, Ecole des Mines, in Paris, France.
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机译：最近，我在仓库的阁楼上摸索着，偶然发现了两个装满各种丑陋矿物质的木箱（见图1）。它们是古老的，用铁丝捆扎的水果包装箱，曾经保存着极为美丽的矿物质，许多年前，Excalibur于1970年代中期从新泽西多佛（Dover）开展业务时就离开了我。手写的地址立即带回了我与法国巴黎矿业大学矿物博物馆（Musee de Mineralogie）的Paul Sainfeld博士（sainfeldite）进行持续交流的过程中遇到的两位外国游客的回忆。
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