Dear Art,

I was to quick in putting the question. What would I be in the Army.
with best shelling greetings
Helmut from Innsbruck, a private and selfecuated shell collector, an amateur in sense of non professional.


Helmut "Helix" Nisters
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
web:    www.netwing.at/nisters/
           (please visit it and sign guestbook)
always looking for shellgrit from all over the world
for my nearly 89 years aged mother Irmgard
to makes happy and to keep up her health

office:
Natural History Department of the
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
Feldstrasse 11 a
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86 - 37
web: www.tiroler-landesmuseum.at
        (specimen donations to the
         Tiroler Landesmuseum molluscs collection
         are always appreciated)

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    If thou lookest for title designations, gho thou to the Army.
    All us "amateurs" would be some sort of non-com. Betty Jean would be
a Drill Sergeant. Published amatuers (me) cound be Sergeant-Majors.
    A professional (one accepting lucre) would start as Captains and
Lieutenants (dealers maybe)  Jose would surely be a Colonel. Andy
Rindsberg would be, too. The generals would be those individuals
(Harasywich, Pierce) running the meuseums. Tucker Abbott retired as a
Field Marshall.
    Now all we need would be those war-zone whatdyacallems worn on the
left breast. One for each shell show or prize won at same. Do you think
we could get Major Medical?
        Art