Sometimes an ebay listing can make you feel good without a sale! Not coin related but could be!
amwldcoin
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Dear xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Your photograph of
A seashell I have listed on a different account!
is the best one I found (after a long search on the Internet) of an algorithmic principle (Sierpinski gasket). I would be grateful if I could include it in a book chapter I am finishing this week, on medical mycology (fungi). I would cite the source "with permission" in the way you choose (e.g., your name and any other relevant company/organization). If the copyright of a photograph changes with the owner of the object sold on ebay (which I doubt), I could in principle purchase the shell but otherwise I do not need to own it, the use of the photograph for the book chapter is all I request.
Thank you very much.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Best regards,
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Comments
Dude, you have to show the seashell
Has to be some sort of cone shell... maybe Conus textile or Conus aulicus
I bet you @amwldcoin..... I have every single one of them. Please show me the picture?
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Nice shell... I collected them as a kid...had a display board made up with the best one's... Cheers, RickO
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Cypraea Leucodon
I have mine for over 8 yrs ..a gorgeous 85mm cowry with distinctive teeth
Here she is with Peace for size comparison
Great thread!
@amwldcoin ...Your collection is top notch! You have quite a taste and knowledge
I am looking for a good Broderpii
Here is my other FAV....Cypraea Fultoni Massieri
The famous "granulated" deep deep sea creature usually obtained from a deep sea fish stomach by the Russian fisherman
Very Rare....
The animal continuously cover calcium rich "slime" over the shell..... translucently harden over the old layers creating the intricate pattern
Rare occasion you see one with what looks like a CROSS
Leaves one "shell shocked."
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OMG your Fultoni is out of this world
Mine is more granulated...I'd say MS62 compares to your MS65 
Looks like you have quite the collection also! I'll have to look and see if I have a Broderpii.
@amwldcoin You "made" me go to my shell cabinet early in Hawaii morning hour
Yeah...this is starting to make me have regrets....I sold that one to a guy in California too cheap....$1950.
Looking for clear dorsum pattern and those yummy creamy speckles.....
Please show us the picture....
Cool- that's an awesome shell and story! I wound up being a contributor to Roger Burdette's Peace Dollar book because of a photo I posted here...
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@Paradisefound ....Sorry.... That vanished into oblivion long, long ago. I made it when I was a kid... the lady across the street would go on vacation down south by the ocean every year. She always brought me back shells, which I eventually displayed, glued to a painted piece of plywood. It was actually quite nice. I have no idea what every became of it.... I joined the Navy at 17 and a lot of stuff disappeared. An interesting thing happened last year. When I was a kid, we would get a weekly allowance - 25 cents... and I had a paper route. So, often I would go to this local antique and oddity shop and look for something to buy. One day, he had an intricately carved cane with colors added - lizards and other stuff - and I purchased it for the princely sum of 35 cents. It was indeed a treasured piece with untold history. Then, as mentioned above, some years later, I joined the Navy.... My Mom cleaned out much of my 'treasures'...undoubtedly had yard sales... and one way or the other, the can disappeared. I commenced my world and national travels which continued after I left the Navy. After about 47 years, I returned to this area (the story behind that, you would not believe). One day, while checking yard sales, lo and behold, there was MY CANE!! I repurchased it for 50 cents and now have it once again. Just amazing. Anyway, I have never seen my shell board at a yard sale...
Cheers, RickO
Great Story! On a different note....my Mom threw away my baseball card collection when I went away to school.
When I tell her what they would've been worth she shrugs her shoulders and says well....my mother threw away all my lead soldiers when I went to school! Retaliation????
It was meant to be....the path you crossed @ricko
I can imagine what went through your head & heart when you saw it there 
When my collecting period started to call for additional space... I knew then & decided it was time to cease
There are sitting pretty in a tall glass cabinet....
I believe in seeing and feeling them all for enjoyment...so I never get any wooden cabinet (yours is gorgeous though)
Mine started back in my Southern Cal time as an avid scuba diver....connecting to other colleagues collecting & exchanging worldwide
My approach was very conservative...collect only 1 sample piece and preserve the rest
That's a great way to do it! I seem to never know when to stop when I start something! When I stopped I could put out a display that would rival or exceed the Sanibel Island Shell Museum. I hesitate to guess....but probably still have well over 10,000 shells. A lot was from dabbling and dealing a few shells at Coin Shows! I invested a fairly substantial sum when I found a good source in the Philippines. I started as a little boy who spent every available amount of time when we would go to Florida once or twice a year hunting and snorkeling for shells.
MY mom threw out all my toys!
Nowadays they aren't all that hot, but at the time..... OH YEAH !!
Since she did it out of spite, I had to let her know how much MONEY she tossed.
Very cool