Dear All,
 
never having been to the American continent, I asked a friend who was
working in Mexico for a while to bring me some shells if he found any. When
I met him a couple of months later, he brought me this wonderful Busycon
contrarium. It was rather faded, but undamaged, and I was very happy with
it. I put it in my shell cupbord, and over the following months noticed a
returning of the axial brown stripes on the last whorl. How would anyone
explain that?
 
Patty Jansen
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