Thanks to Avril Bourquin for a very interesting topic: toys from shells. I think that some examples (e.g., dolls made from scallops and other shells) may be in Myra Keen's humorous exhibit, "Uses and Abuses of Shells," at the Department of Geology, Stanford University. She had collected two cases of shell crafts, some of them kitschy, others real works of art. She left it to the visitor to decide which was which. Does anyone know what has become of this exhibit (which I last saw in 1975)? Andrew K. Rindsberg Geological Survey of Alabama