[7] A copy of Born's catalogue was among 213 books from James Smithson's collection which were bequeathed to the Smithsonian Institution.
[8] After Born's death in 1791, Von Raab's collection was sold to Count Moritz Christian Friess of Vienna.
[2][3] Friess's collection was sold in 1824, a major purchaser being Ferdinand Zimmerman of the Medicinisch-Chirurgische Josephs-Akademie.
They compared some of the labels with Born's catalogue and found that they corresponded, supporting the identification of the collection.
[4] The Hubers published a paper on "The mineral collection of Eleonore von Raab" in The Mineralogical Record in 2015.