Sorry, you are wrong, I find them every day on Sanibel, by the dozens!!
Clair HendricksonAt 04:28 PM 3/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>You are absolutely right, Vicky.  Don't let these Sanibel folks kid you.
>There are no Wentletraps on Sanibel!  I have been shelling there once or
>twice a year for 25 years and haven't found a Wentletrap yet.  That is the
>ONLY shell which the locals CLAIM to have on Sanibel that I have not found
>(even found a Lion's paw)--well, except for the Junonia, which condominium
>keepers regularly "seed" outside their establishments to have them found and
>reported in one of the weekly papers.
>
>You know, in years past the  Chinese made fake copies of the Precious
>Wentletrap out of rice paste and sold them for thousand of dollars.  In
>those days they were as scarce as flying pigs.  So don't buy another
>Wentetrap without soaking it in water first.
>
>By the way, the same goes for buying a flying pig.
>
>Stew
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