Dear Conchlers worldwide

Today I have a special request to you all. Some time ago I put the same or
similar request to the list, but I didn't get any answer. With help of
everybody of you it
might succeed.
Please all collectors and dealers worldwide help me to bring together a
certain number (also a few hundreds) of common shells, must not be gem, but
very nice and fresh
seconds, also the size is second, with good color, only with minor, not
visuable
flaws, seriously nice ones, that I can give to children as a gift in
remembering, when they
are coming to have a view at the museums collection. I mostly think on nice
and common Cypraeas, as moneta, annulus, asellus, tigris, vitellus, lynx,
which you always can find and
which are easy to spare for you all, some common, but nice colored
coneshells, not filed
lips, some nice Naticidae or Muricidae, Strombidae, Aporrhais,
eg.Pectinidae (common but
intire with both valves). It should be nice and mostly colorful material,
which the children like. Small microshells for such a project what I want
to do, are not so good.  I hope that all of the list are willing to
contribute in donation
with such shells for that project. I would wish me many shells as possible.
The datas must not be excellent, but the names and localities with datas of
collecting. I am waiting eagerly for some parcels.
Please let me not hang and help me.
with thanks in advance and hoping to hear from you all !!!!! soon. Please
don't understand this as begging !!!!, as I did it on the list in former
times for the shell
collection of the museum, as a few members feeled.
with best shelling greetings
Helmut

Helmut "Helix" Nisters
private:
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
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website: www.netwing.at/nisters
office:
Natural History Department of the
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
Feldstrasse 11a
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86 - 37
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
website: www.tiroler-landesmuseum.at