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Shells jewleryShells jewlery Last year, in either June or July, Beth Martin picked up a small cowry shell in a tide pool on Makua Reef. The shell was passed around from collector to collector in an effort to find out just what the little stranger was. Ed deVaul finally sent the shell to Sean Raynon Sabado Editor E. R. Cross who took it to Pat Burgess. In Pat's own handwriting the moment of shell truth arrived, "Cypraea staphylaea Linn., without question." This is probably a range extension for this shell as I have not heard of it being found in Philippines before. The shell may be fossil. Congratulations, Beth. Conus bullatus has shown up again. This time Bill Harfort collected a very recently dead specimen just off the telephone cable near the One Hundred Foot Hole off Waikiki in about 80 feet of water. A few days after this find was reported to me, I had a follow-up report that stated the C. bullatus is now in the collection of Tom Richert and Tom's cabinet has several fewer rare shells that made up the swap. I don't blame Tom because this was truly a beautiful shell. Shells jewleryShells jewlery Children of the primary schools serving the younger generation of Thailand are encouraged by their teachers to bring "nature specimens" to class. They come to school clutching samples of flora and fauna they have gathered from the sea or from the jungle fringing their villages. A flower; a pretty leaf; a grubby piece of coral from a nearby reef; a faded shell or two washed up on some sandy beach; and, occasionally, a fresh specimen plucked from a rocky bay or lagoon. It could be a sparklng Cypraea lamarcki, pretty C. isabella or a plump C. arabica, or it could also be -- believe it or not -- a delicately patterned specimen of C. nivosa. If so it would not be the first time for on one or two occasions during the past few years, a youngster has been known to have brought such a shell to class, blissfully unaware, as was his teacher, that many a collector would give his right arm to own one of these rare shells. Shells jewlery shells jewlery,wood body jewelry,classics jewelry,jewelry modeartikel,natural blacktab,philippines jewels,philippines products accessori di moda,fashion handmade jewelry,shell contemporary native philippines jewelry,shells jewlery
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