Sounds like a decapotype.

David Kirsh
Durham, NC

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>I have heard a story that a certain marine shell, whenever it was found
>in Japanese waters, was to be immediately and exclusively given to the
>Emperor, with dire consequences befalling any who heeded not this
>directive.

"In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying."--Bertrand Russell

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