To my information it is a styled version of the European Pecten maximus.

sincerely, Erick Staal
(from Holland, Home to 60 % of Royal Dutch Shell.)
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From: G Thomas Watters <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: Shell Oil Tankers


> At 03:13 PM 6/9/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >As I understand it they supplied the buttons for the button industry from
top
> >shells. When plastics came about there went their business, but before
that
> >oil was discovered in the Orient and the only fleet of ships that was
> >available to start shipping the oil (in barrels in those days) was the
shell
> >oil companies. Now I think I read that someplace, but as I get older my
> >memory isn't always what it use to be, so it may just be another urban
> >legend. Or is it?
> >
> >Frank Walker
> >
>
> Well, the version I heard was that the company started out selling shells
> with a gas pump outside as a sideline, which quickly became more
> profitable. The company's emblem is supposed to be the lemon form of
> Lindapecten muscosus, known to all collectors. And I think I read this
> someplace, too...
>
>
>
>
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