Hi Helmut (and others),

I personally believe you can call yourself "advanced" the day you
realize two things:

1) that money can't buy everything and certainly not the joy of trading
and finding shells yourself

2) that good locality data are really as important as the professionals
say they are

But then again : we call ourselves the most advanced species, don't we?
Still, when you look carefully around you....;=)

greetings,

Jan Haspeslagh
Belgium

Helmut Nisters wrote:
>
> Dear Conchlers,
>
> can anybody explain me when somebody is an advanced collector. One who has enough cash
> to buy shells. So he can spends much cash / month for buying the most beautiful shells or
> then when somebody takes selfcollected material, make tradings, buying seldom, eg.
> How many species must have an advanced collector. How much material. What is the
> medium number of species (without to many subspecies and forms)  what Conchlers have in their collection
> with best shelling greetings
> Helmut
>
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