Dear Giancarlo et alii,

I think the problem is reduced to this one :
Until there will be cones collectors who will continue to buy filed cones,
dealers filing the lip will exist.
The purpose ?
To sell that filed cone at higher price, like GEM, hoping the customer
doesn't will see the "repair".
Personally, I prefer a little chip and not a little "repair".
The grade of cones with filed lip ?
F. No more. Even if the "repair" is only 1mm.
It would be necessary "to punish" the bad faith.
Don't worry the serious dealers.
Unfortunately there are also unscrupulous dealers.
Best regards to all.

Marco


----- Original Message -----
From: Giancarlo Paganelli <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 6:19 PM
Subject: filed lip


> Question
>
> Is a filed lip coneshell of F+ grade?
>
> When I started my collection I was very  ignorant about shells and all my
> cones seem to be very atractive.
> After some time I realized that at least 30 % of them had the outer lip
> filed.
> At the exhibitions you can use a good lens or an exercised eye, but
buying
> from a list you can have unpleasant surprises.
> Now I hope that the use to fil the lips will end.
> I think that the dealers should refuse to buy from divers cones so mended;
> in this way perhaps this use could stop.
> In the meantime every dealer should declare if a cone has the lip filed.
In
> this case I think the grade is at most F.
>
> I should very happy to have the opinion of collectors and dealers on that
> point.
>
> Ciao
>
> Giancarlo
>
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