Deserved Another
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One Good Seashell Deserved Another
Conus gloria maris is the kind of shell that everybody would like to find, but few do. Shell collectors offer big money for such rarities. So there was great excitement in October when Mrs. Ann Appleton, of Rabaul, found one on a local beach The whole shell collecting world took an interest. She was offered as much as 1,000 dollars for the shell. The publicity flushed out the surprising in formation that George Edwards, of the Duke of York Islands, near Rabaul, had owned a conus gloria maris for the last five years. What was more, it was larger, far superior, and he intends to keep it.
On latest reports there is now a boom on the entire Rabaul shell market, and local natives are asking outlandish prices for any old shell at all! Above are the happy owners with the shells that started all the fuss, photographed by M. R. Hayes, of Rabaul.