Toluca, IAB-sLL

A comprehensive description of the history and discovery of Toluca can be found in Farrington’s 1915 Catalog of North American Meteorites.  It was first referenced in 1784, but the majority of the meteorites from the field were recovered by H. H. Nininger, as described in his book Find a Falling Star.  Nininger makes reference to the recovery as one of the more notable achievements of his career in the published paper titled The Nininger Collection of Meteorites, released in Volume 58 of Popular Astronomy:

While this may not be the pictured piece, this is one of the many specimens he references in the above excerpt.  It was certainly prepared by Nininger, while he lived in Palmer Lake, Colorado, in the early 1930s.  I have seen only a few such labels elsewhere: notably, in the mineral collection of UC Berkeley while there as an undergraduate.

105.5 gram quarter cut with Ward’s Natural Science Establishment label.