Guido Poppe has two photos on his Gallery of 186 Fake Shells; the
brief captions note

"done with acids"

On 1/7/22, Thomas Eichhorst <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks.  It is a great looking cone, even being a fake.
>
> Tom
>
> On 1/7/2022 2:26 PM, George Sangiouloglou wrote:
>> Dear Thomas & Scott,
>> In my shelling trip on 2007 to Cebu was many Conus laterculatus FAKE
>> in the market from small dealers, I bought few of them also a dealer
>> from Austria was there, then a friend big dealer informed me that was
>> fake.
>>
>> http://www.george-shells.com/auct/con_laterculatus_fake_l471.jpg
>>
>> Warm regards.
>> George
>>
>> Thomas Eichhorst wrote:
>>
>>> I believe you can see you shell if you go to this auction web site.Â
>>> http://www.george-shells.com/auction_con_oct07.html George Sangiouloglou
>>> lists it as a fake shell on his auction site.
>>>
>>> On 1/7/2022 6:31 AM, Scott Robichaud wrote:
>>> > I was in the Philippines about 15 years ago and I bought four cone
>>> shells From one of the many locals camped out on the lawn in front of
>>> our hotel rooms selling seashells. We were on Mactan island in Cebu.
>>> The shells are light purple, thin and long at 50-55mm. They have the
>>> same shape, size, and texture as Conus laterculatus, except they are
>>> all light purple with no mottlings. I can’t seem to find this shell
>>> in any of my literature. Does this sound familiar to anyone. If these
>>> were painted using an airbrush method, someone really did a really
>>> stellar job. Is anyone out there familiar with this little purple cone?
>>> > Scott
>>> >
>>> > Sent from my iPhone
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