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Posted 11 months ago
ho2cultcha
(540 items)
This beauty has an interesting story about how i came to own it. As a kid, i always wanted a giant clam for my extensive shell collection, but i never did find one. A few months ago, i had a dream that i found one and i was really happy. The next day, i found a very nice, but much smaller one at the Berkeley city dump. A few days later, i was out walking my dog and we found this on a sidewalk near in my neighborhood - in front of a house which had been foreclosed. I think that a Samoan family lived there and lost their home and were unable to take this w/ them. It takes 3 strong guys to lift and move this with a lot of effort. It is almost 40" x 24" and very thick - hence almost 300 lbs.
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Oh how wonderful ! I love it . I also love shells and what a find this was :-)
thanks manikin. i have never seen one this large for sale in the last few years. have you?
good question. years ago, i found some fossil oysters near patterson, california and the fossilized shells were 6" thick. I figured they must have been at least 5-600 years old when they died.