You mean you're about to hit the big 4-0, Doug?
 
Andrew
 
-----Original Message-----
From:   Douglas Nolen Shelton [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Tuesday, December 01, 1998 5:00 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Coins for Shells
 
OK, to turn this coin discussion back to shells, has anyone ever gathered,
saved, "stolen" coins to buy shells?  I remember when I was 14 as a young
beginning collector scraping together enough coins to place my first order for
shells from the late Kirk Anders.  It was indeed Christmas in August when the
package arrived; my first Pleuroploca gigantea collected by Kirk Anders
himself.  Now nearly 25 years later I still treasure that shell not for what
it is, but because of its legacy and my memories from so may years ago.
 
Doug Shelton
Alabama Malacological Research Center
2370-G Hillcrest Road #236
Mobile, AL 36695
 
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