Thanks Harry, if I may be so bold as to use your first name since we haven't even been introduced. One wonders why he put it in the book.But now at least I can own one that can either be gem live collected or fresh dead depending upon how much I want to polish it.
Gary

--- On Fri, 9/12/08, Marcus Coltro <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Marcus Coltro <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [CONCH-L] RES: [CONCH-L] Oliva incrassata
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, September 12, 2008, 8:28 AM
> I admit I had to "Google" Shinola out of
> curiosity....
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinola
>
>
> Marcus
>
>
>
> Dear Gary,
>
> The late Rowland Ziegler had a black Oliva incrassata which
> he displayed at shell shows including
> Jacksonville's in the late 1970's.
>
> In the label he issued a caveat that read something like:
> "You'll never see one of these in nature;
> this shell is ShinolaR-treated."
>
> I'm rather sure Tucker Abbott saw this
> "specimen" on at least one occasion.
>
> I can't easily reconcile the statement in his book that
> a black form "has been found" with what he
> showed and discussed with me and others during those
> old-timey shell show festivities.
>
> Harry
>
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