Ryosuke Kawamura was the founder of JCB, Japan's first credit card and now one of the biggest in the world, third only to Visa and Master. He was a major shell collector. He donated his collection to the National Science Museum in Tokyo, together with enough funds to curate and house it, and to produce a book about it (World Seashells of Rarity & Beauty). Nice bloke.

PC.

Paul Callomon
Collections Manager
Malacology, Invertebrate Paleontology and General Invertebrates
Department of Malacology
Academy of Natural Sciences
1900 Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA
Tel 215-405-5096
Fax 215-299-1170
Secretary, American Malacological Society
On the web at www.malacological.org

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A newspaper is making a small article about shells and they asked me if I knew many famous
collectors. I remembered a few as Emperor Hiroito from Japan, Raymond Burr, Cleopatra (mentioned in
a few books) John DuPont, and  Lauren Hutton. Does anyone knows any others? I know there is one
Sheik from Qatar but I can't find his name.

Marcus

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