There are two interesting facts about the rice paste wentletrap story: (1) It won't go away. I heard it 30 years ago, and every few years since; and (2) No living person has ever seen one of those rice-paste forgeries. No museum in the world has one. Too bad - if one could be located today, it would undoubtedly be worth many times the current value of a real Epitonium scalare. Stew, I seriously doubt that anyone would make a flying pig out of rice paste. Paul M.