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Has any club ever had a shell show and included a "People's Choice" award?
I wonder how different the choices would be between people's choices and
judges' choices. I know in stamp shows it makes a big difference. Peoples
choice seemed to voted on the popularly of the topic, rather than the
quality of the display.
Sylvia Edwards
Huntsville AL
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From: Thomas E. Eichhorst <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] "Most Beautiful Species" -NOT!!
>An interesting way to hang a most beautiful label on a shell might be to
>have someone look at the shells who DOESN'T know the values. I
>guarantee that if you lay down a row of pecten shells with a
>Gloriapallium pallium, a Volachlamys tranquebaria, a Gloriapallium
>speciosum, a Chlamys australis, and maybe a Decadopecten superbus --
>there would be know way of telling which shell would win. These are all
>pretty shells and vary from the very inexpensive G. pallium to the
>pricier D. superbus. On the other hand, a shell collector might let
>rarity influence his or her choice. Notice how I stayed away from
>Cypraea or Conus.
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>My problem is at this moment I could say which shell I think is tops in
>most every family, but then tomorrow I would see a great image on Bret
>Raines web page, or Guido Poppe's page, or the Jacksonville Shell Club
>page, or any of the many pages with great shell images and my
>convictions might just waver.
>
>Tom Eichhorst in New Mexico, USA (just passing the time)
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