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Hello Ross,
Thumbing through the Mar 92 AmConch, I saw your ad listed Schooner Specimen
Shells as "The World's Only Non-Profit Shell Dealership." Below it was a
subtitle: "A unique project to benefit third world development and relief."
What an intriguing concept! Did it fly? Are you still non-profit?
Jenny
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> From: ross mayhew <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: see above.
> Date: Monday, 19 January, 1998 0:28 AM
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> (ran out of space on my 8" screen again!)
> F/F+, F+/F++, F+ high......some shells just DON'T fit
conveniently into
> a grade which includes several factors. Improvisation is sometimes
> nessessary!
>
> So, there you have it. When purchasing "sight unseen", one must
also
> bear in mind that grades do not take aesthetics ("beauty"- a rather
> sujective term at best!) into account- a GEM specimen can be ugly as
> sin, have no pattern at all, or at least nothing one would wish to
> stare at for too long! The only insurance one has against improperly,
> incompletely or inappropriately-described items, is a dealer's return
> policy and practice. Fortunately for the collector, most dealers will
> fully refund or give credit for items returned a) in their origional
> condition, and b) within a reasonable (sometimes explicidly stated,
> sometimes not) time-frame.
>
> Good luck, and good hunting!!
>
-Ross Mayhew,
> Your Schooner (graded-with-care(Most of the time!!) )Specimen
Shell
> Molluscan-commodities Purveyor.
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