Graham: If you provide us with an e-mail address, I'm sure people will contact you privately. ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Diving shells in South Africa Author: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]> at INTERNET Date: 5/20/98 1:15 PM Dear Shellers I have recently, and for the first time, had access and used the internet, for the main purpose of being able to sell shells that I find while diving. I have recently moved to a small coastal town called Cape St Francis on the east coast of South Africa, I first started diving here in 1984 with Bill Liltved (Cowries & their Relatives of Southern Africa) while he was still researching material for his book, the Cypraea castenea on the cover was the first adult live specimen ever found. Since then I have always wanted to stay here and have recently built my home here. I am very fond of diving for molluscs and although the diving here is limited by the weather and sea conditions, I'm sure that there must be a market for the shells from this area, Please, isn't there some shellers out there who are wanting specimens from this area. If there is, please could you let me know how to get hold of them. I would be extemely grateful as finance is needed to ensure my safe diving Yours Sincerely Graham Tugwell <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <META content='"MSHTML 4.71.1712.3"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3><STRONG>Dear Shellers</STRONG></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face="" size=3><STRONG>I have recently, and for the first time, had access and used the internet, for the main purpose of being able to sell shells that I find while diving. I have recently moved to a small coastal town called Cape St Francis on the east coast of South Africa, I first started diving here in 1984 with Bill Liltved (Cowries & their Relatives of Southern Africa) while he was still researching material for his book, the Cypraea castenea on the cover was the first adult live specimen ever found. Since then I have always wanted to stay here and have recently built my home here. I am very fond of diving for molluscs and although the diving here is limited by the weather and sea conditions, I'm sure that there must be a market for the shells from this area, Please, isn't there some shellers out there who are wanting specimens from this area. If there is, please could you let me know how to get hold of them. I would be extemely grateful as finance is needed to ensure my safe diving</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face="" size=3><STRONG></STRONG></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG>Yours Sincerely</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG>Graham Tugwell</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face="" size=3><STRONG></STRONG></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>