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Maybe the curtain is wrong side out.
Dan
> >I have a shower curtain that depicts a sinistral buccinid; however,
>> >as it also depicts a "Strombus" gigas with dextral body and
>> >sinistral aperture, I do not think it is too reliable a source of
>> >evidence. It's also obvious that there was a mix-up between the
>> >folks who got the names and pictures out of a shell book and the
>> >ones assembling them into the curtain pattern.
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>> That is quite "normal". The people who draw such patterns are not
>> capable of drawing what they see!
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>Andrew, that's called ART.
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>It occurs to me the original depiction of shells for the shower curtain may
>have depicted the shells with correct spiral turns, that the copy image was
>reversed somewhere in the printing process.
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>I'm sure everyone can think of at least one time they have seen an image of
>"sinistral" shells where it is obvious the negative was flipped at the
>printers. It is an old and too frequent nightmare of publishing shell images.
>
>John Timmerman
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><DIV><EM> >I have a shower curtain that depicts a sinistral
>buccinid; however,<BR>> >as it also depicts a "Strombus" gigas with
>dextral body and<BR>> >sinistral aperture, I do not think it is too
>reliable a source of<BR>> >evidence. It's also obvious that
>there was a mix-up between the<BR>> >folks who got the names and
>pictures out of a shell book and the<BR>> >ones assembling them into
>the curtain pattern.<BR>><BR>> That is quite "normal". The people
>who draw such patterns are not<BR>> capable of drawing what they
>see!<BR><BR>Andrew, that's called ART.<BR><BR></EM>It occurs to me the
>original depiction of shells for the shower curtain may have depicted
>the shells with correct spiral turns, that the copy image was reversed
>somewhere in the printing process. </DIV>
><DIV> </DIV>
><DIV>I'm sure everyone can think of at least one time they
>have seen an image of "sinistral" shells where it
>is obvious the negative was flipped at the
>printers. It is an old and too frequent nightmare of publishing shell
>images. </DIV>
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