Supplement to May – June 2025
CONTENTS
Preface
by Wendell E. Wilson
Value Buying and the Pre-Internet Age
of Building Collections
by Robert M. Lavinsky
Kay Robertson and the Natural History
Museum of Los Angeles county
by Anthony R. Kampf
Kay Robertson and Her Mineral Collection
by Thomas P. Moore
The Wölsendorf Fluorite District, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
by Kay Robertson (1963)
Gallery
Highlights from the Kay Robertson Collection
The Significance of the Kay Robertson German Suite
by Mark Feinglos
The Role of Private
Mineral Collections in Museums
by Peter G. Embrey
Kay and Textiles
by Robert M. Lavinsky and Kay Robertson
Grandma Kay and Me
by Jessica Robertson
Afterword
by Robert M. Lavinsky
This special supplement was funded entirely by Robert Lavinsky, The Arkenstone.