Let me rephrase my message from " burned " to be , get the upper hand ...sorry for the over site, mark -----Original Message----- From: peta bethke <ferreter@gate.net> To: CONCH-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <CONCH-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 7:50 PM Subject: Re: Slit shell

|Hello Barbera, Guido Poppe has been very kind to produce and maintain a FREE listing of most common and rare sea shells . |heres the IRL http://www.conchology.uunethost.be/ the site is easy to navigate, pick the family , you'll see a listing, |pick the first and click , if the images matches what you saw then bingo, not the right one , click back , try next,,, i |think you have africanus and i have one at 5 3/4 in ,,,tequila sunrise colored , i have the westralis and it's ugly colored , |sort of clear tan and not anything like africanus . check out the site , you decide and offer the lady half of what she wants |anyway , this will be one of the rare times that the collector burns the dealer . good luck , mark bethke (ferreter) | | | | | | | | |-Original Message----- |From: Barbara Jouvernaux <barbaraj@HN.PL.NET> |To: CONCH-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <CONCH-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> |Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 6:41 PM |Subject: Re: Slit shell | | ||I have come across a slit shell for sale which has no ID or location data. ||It may have come from an old collection and has turned up amongst a large ||selection of low grade shells for the ornament and craft market. The seller ||doesn't seem to know much about shells either, as she is not a collector and ||sells mainly to people wanting a few pretty shells for the mantlepiece. ||Although she suspects it may be quite valuable, she does not know what price ||to ask, so is investigating before she will quote me a price. ||This looks like a possible golden opportunity if she comes back to me with a ||really good price. Being a beginner collector, and not very knowledgable yet ||myself, I have no idea what the true value of such a shell would be. I have ||only briefly examined the shell at her shop, and I did not have any ||reference books with me. ||I came home and looked at a few books and it looks like it could be a ||perotrochus africana or perotrochus westralis. It is about 5 inches, pale ||orange and in reasonable condition, I would guestimate F to F+. ||I have read that a slit shell can be faked. I would love to have any advice ||you can offer regarding clues to identify the shell and how one can tell ||whether it is a fake or not. Is there a site on the internet where I could ||see some good pictures? Also an estimation of the value of the shell with no ||data at all. ||Many thanks for your input. || |