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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 609897" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>My all-time favorite "collection" was never really mine, an old family heirloom that my older brother claimed, then ended up giving away! I would KILL to have it now! It was a seashell collection that my great-grandfather started when he was a very young man. He was born in Germany in 1858 and immigrated to the US as a child. He added to this collection all his life till he died at age 86. They ranged from huge ones with pearly rainbow insides to tiny ones in little glass bottles with slips of yellowed paper that identified each species in his proper Victorian handwriting. Hundreds and hundreds of them in a big handmade wooden box. And there was a handwritten log book with each one numbered and carefully cataloged, with the scientific name, the description, and the date he acquired it. He died two years before I was born so I never knew him. He was a brilliant man who worked as a carpenter making beautiful things like carved wooden church alters. This collection was in our attic as long as I could remember and I cringe now to think that our parents allowed us to play with them when we were kids! Somehow my older brother ended up with them ... don't remember any discussion, he just took them, along with the box and the logbook! They kept a few of the bigger pretty ones. They lived in Gainesville, Fla. at the time and he donated the whole collection to the Univ. of Fla. who promptly ground most of them up to do some kind of study on ocean pollution. Pffft on their research ... I <u>WANTED</u> it and now it's gone! How I wish that I could go back and reclaim some of these family treasures that we didn't care about at the time, but we were just kids and what did we know!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 609897, member: 1883"] My all-time favorite "collection" was never really mine, an old family heirloom that my older brother claimed, then ended up giving away! I would KILL to have it now! It was a seashell collection that my great-grandfather started when he was a very young man. He was born in Germany in 1858 and immigrated to the US as a child. He added to this collection all his life till he died at age 86. They ranged from huge ones with pearly rainbow insides to tiny ones in little glass bottles with slips of yellowed paper that identified each species in his proper Victorian handwriting. Hundreds and hundreds of them in a big handmade wooden box. And there was a handwritten log book with each one numbered and carefully cataloged, with the scientific name, the description, and the date he acquired it. He died two years before I was born so I never knew him. He was a brilliant man who worked as a carpenter making beautiful things like carved wooden church alters. This collection was in our attic as long as I could remember and I cringe now to think that our parents allowed us to play with them when we were kids! Somehow my older brother ended up with them ... don't remember any discussion, he just took them, along with the box and the logbook! They kept a few of the bigger pretty ones. They lived in Gainesville, Fla. at the time and he donated the whole collection to the Univ. of Fla. who promptly ground most of them up to do some kind of study on ocean pollution. Pffft on their research ... I [U]WANTED[/U] it and now it's gone! How I wish that I could go back and reclaim some of these family treasures that we didn't care about at the time, but we were just kids and what did we know! [/QUOTE]
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