I have my first shell, also. When I was eleven my neighbor, Wanda Averil asked me to take care of her shells while she went shell collecting on the California coast. She had recently returned with a large number of bivalves and gastropods she had collected around Santa Cruz. My job was to pour the horrible smelling water out about eight buckets of shells and replace it with fresh water. I did this for two weeks until she returned, at which time she thanked me with my first seashell. It is a pale yellow Corculum aselae. She had bought it in San Francisco just for me!
Wanda had a nice collection of very large shells that she had bought over several years on display in the house. I used to go over just to look at those beautiful shells, and dream of collecting some like them.
My folks didn't go over the hills to the beach at Sant Cruz very often, so I didn't collect my first self-collected shell until I was 16. There I found a few Oliva biplicata tangled in some seaweed washed up on shore near Carmel-by-the Sea. I have those little treasures, as well.
Dale Snyder
> On September 16, 2019 at 8:19 AM "Frederick W. Schueler" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> On 16-Sep.-19 2:51 a.m., Ron G. Noseworthy wrote:
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> > Are there others on the list who remember their first shell/s? I'll bet that some of those stories would be quite interesting.
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> * my first shells were a spectacular boxful of marine beauties, mostly
> snails, that my aunt and uncle brought back from a vacation in Florida
> around 1957. I got interested in the internal coiling, and my mother
> allowed us to attach a disk with sandpaper to the motor of an old vacuum
> cleaner and produce huge volumes of calcareous dust by grinding many
> shells away to cross sections. I used these in a grade 4 science
> project, with an essay on logarithmic isomorphic growth, which only
> netted me a B grade - suggesting to me that the teacher hadn't
> understood what I had been getting at, one of my first insights into the
> idea that adults weren't omniscient.
>
> These are long lost, and the oldest collection I have in my database is
> in the Canadian Museum of Nature 2004 backlog / Lampsilis radiata
> siliquoidea / Canada: Ontario: Kenora District: Attawapiskat / July
> 1971 / Frederick W. Schueler - no field number.
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> fred.
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