Dear Gary Rosenberg,
 
If you like some inlandshells from Austria and Northern Italy, maybe
from other parts of Europe too, please let me know. I can send you
a nice selection of about 50 species for your auction. I can prepare
this parcel until the first of april, so that you will have them within in
the date of the auction.
Please let me know as soon as possible, so I can start to prepare
some material with the other for other purposes.
with best shelling regards
Helmut Nisters from Innsbruck
 
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> The Philadelphia Shell Club and the Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology
> Campaign Committee proudly announce their 1999 Shell and Book Auction. Items
> offered for auction will consist of:
>
>      Books from the library of Leonard Hill
>      Select specimen shells from the Philadelphia Shell Club
>      Shells from the collection of Meyer Naide
>
> All proceeds from the Meyer Naide and Leonard Hill materials will go to the
> endowment fund of the Department of Malacology of the Academy of Natural
> Sciences.
>
> Auction date: Saturday, May 15, 1999
>
> Location: The Commons Room of the Academy of Natural Sciences
> 19th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
>
> Auction schedule:
>
>  9:30 to 10:00 am: Registration (enter at 19th Street)
> 10:00 to 10:30: Preview and continuing registration
> 10:30 to 12:00: Books from the Leonard Hill library
> 12:00 to  1:00: Lunch break
>  1:00 to  3:00: Shells from the Philadelphia Shell Club
>  3:00 to  4:00: Shells from the Meyer Naide collection
>
> Contact Nick Ruggeri, President of the Philadelphia Shell Club, for the
> auction list <[log in to unmask]>.
>
> Anyone coming solely to the auction will not be charged admission to the
> Academy of Natural Sciences. However, those wishing to visit the museum as
> well as attend the auction will be offered discounted admission tickets;
> admission will be $5.50 for adults and $4.50 for children instead of the
> normal $8.50 and $7.50
>
> A bargain table consisting of material from the Meyer Naide collection will
> be open before the auction, during lunch, and after the auction until
> 5:00PM, the closing time for the Academy. The table will be strictly closed
> during the auction.
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> Gary Rosenberg, Ph.D.                     [log in to unmask]
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