Date:         Fri, 6 Oct 2000 11:15:21 -0400
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From:         Robert & Betty Lipe <rlipe1@TAMPABAY.RR.COM>
Subject:      Re: Record size, please...
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In the 1999 book its 37.0mm  T. Radjiwan, found in Java.  Measured in mm
and not in centimeters.  Probably the same shell, sold to this person
maybe?

Bob Lipe

C. E. Pinkerton wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midgard <midgard@ICX.NET>
> To: CONCH-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <CONCH-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: Thursday, October 05, 2000 2:13 PM
> Subject: Record size, please...
>
> >    Will someone with the book please tell me the World-record size
> >Cypraea vredenburgi. Thank you much!
> >
> >    Mariah
> >
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>
> Greeings....according to our l990 version of the record sizes of
> shells...your cypraea is listed at 3.70........Belongs to Don Pisor....This
> being quite old may not be the largest in existance at the present time.   I
> have found there are lots of shells larger than those listed in this
> book.....people just dont send it in.  Hope your shell is a record
> however...luck....Mique

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