Hello Ross,
 
Thumbing through the Mar 92 AmConch, I saw your ad listed Schooner Specimen
Shells as "The World's Only Non-Profit Shell Dealership."  Below it was a
subtitle: "A unique project to benefit third world development and relief."
 
What an intriguing concept!  Did it fly?  Are you still non-profit?
 
 
Jenny
 
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> From: ross mayhew <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: see above.
> Date: Monday, 19 January, 1998 0:28 AM
>
> (ran out of space on my 8" screen again!)
>         F/F+, F+/F++, F+ high......some shells just DON'T fit
conveniently into
> a grade which includes several factors.  Improvisation is sometimes
> nessessary!
>
>         So, there you have it.  When purchasing  "sight unseen", one must
also
> bear in mind that grades do not take aesthetics ("beauty"- a rather
> sujective term at best!) into account- a GEM specimen can be ugly as
> sin, have no pattern at all, or at least nothing  one would wish to
> stare at for too long!  The only insurance one has against improperly,
> incompletely or inappropriately-described items, is a dealer's return
> policy and practice.  Fortunately for the collector, most dealers will
> fully refund or give credit for  items returned a) in their origional
> condition, and b) within a reasonable (sometimes explicidly stated,
> sometimes not) time-frame.
>
>         Good luck, and good hunting!!
>
              -Ross Mayhew,
>         Your  Schooner (graded-with-care(Most of the time!!) )Specimen
Shell
> Molluscan-commodities Purveyor.