A friend of mine had a Xenophora with a similar piece of broken glass
attached, but had broken so as to read just "Phil..."  Her husband's name was
Phil.

(Sounds cute, but she was a shell dealer so she sold it to someone else...)




Quoting "Monfils, Paul" <[log in to unmask]>:

> I have had a couple of X. pallidula each with a land snail attached.  One
> with a small bone. One with a piece of wood. One with a Terebra, the other
> end of which was attached to a broken-off section of another Xenophora.  But
> my favorite was the specimen with the built-in locality data. It had
> attached a piece of brown glass, across which a single word was clearly
> printed in white letters - "Philippines". A friend who doesn't know much
> about shells but is knowledgeable concerning potent potables identified the
> attachment as a piece of a San Miguel Beer bottle.
>
> Paul M.
>
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