Hi

    I have been reading this thread with interest. No one has mention Shell Shops in New England.
    I remember one out on the Cape in Sandwich Mass. King's Rock and Shell. I have many enjoyable memories of visiting there.Not only about shells I purchased and still have. But the owner was so nice. He loved my dog a Newfoundland. He would insist that my dog would come in with me. Talk about a bull in a china shop. But he never did break anything. We had some wonderful times talking about shells. And watching humming birds that flocked to a beautiful trumpet he had growing out front.
   Also there was another store out in Westport Mass. run by a very nice men , I can't remember it's name. Again some delightful memories.
    Not to mention the ones in Newport RI. Mostly for tourist but I did get some nice shells there.

Toni
---- Fabio Moretzsohn <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks Leslie for starting this interesting thread!
>
> As seen by the many posts (under different thread names), almost anyone has
> good memories of a particular shell shop that they remember. Probably many
> of us on Conch-L were influenced by a shell shop at the beginning of our
> collecting, so that is why it is so nice to go down memory lane.
>
> It would be a nice project for someone to do research on shell shops,
> especially old ones that are not around anymore, and put together a nicely
> illustrated coffee table book. I think a lot of people would be interested.
>
> As for me, growing up in Brazil (in the 70's-80's) there were no shell shops
> (that I knew of), but in São Paulo you could find some shells at importers
> from India, Indonesia, and of course, the Philippines. There was a small
> store in Santos that was owned by a South African family, and sometimes they
> had shells from South Africa. The only shell shop that I can remember was
> one in a trailer in front of the public aquarium in Santos. And along the
> shore there were always fishermen selling local shells, especially in Bahia.
> Certainly the Coltro brothers can correct me and fill in the gaps in my
> memory.
>
> Fabio

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