Hi,
What's the address of the Bret Raines page?
 
 
 
>An interesting way to hang a most beautiful label on a shell might be to
>have someone look at the shells who DOESN'T know the values.  I
>guarantee  that if you lay down a row of pecten shells with a
>Gloriapallium pallium, a Volachlamys tranquebaria, a Gloriapallium
>speciosum, a Chlamys australis, and maybe a Decadopecten superbus --
>there would be know way of telling which shell would win.  These are all
>pretty shells and vary from the very inexpensive G. pallium to the
>pricier D. superbus.  On the other hand, a shell collector might let
>rarity influence his or her choice.  Notice how I stayed away from
>Cypraea or Conus.
>
>My problem is at this moment I could say which shell I think is tops in
>most every family, but then tomorrow I would see a great image on Bret
>Raines web page, or Guido Poppe's page, or the Jacksonville Shell Club
>page, or any of the many pages with great shell images and my
>convictions might just waver.
>
>Tom Eichhorst in New Mexico, USA (just passing the time)
>
>
Peter Egerton, Vancouver, Canada
Collector of worldwide Mollusca