<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_4256" dir="ltr"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_5064" class="">I am posting on behalf of a conservation colleague in NYC. Responses can be sent to her directly at </font><font size="3"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; white-space: nowrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_5738" class="">eleonora.e.nagy@gmail.com.</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_5742" class=""> </span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_4256"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_4256"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_5175">She is trying to identify and source a replacement for the shell, and this is the only available image (black and white):</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_4256"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_4256"><font size="3"><img class="ymail-preserve-class inline-image-guid-c086f98a-d570-3ac6-089a-e7254cadcb1b rte-inline-saved-image" src="cid:e855e803-5ffe-5e26-8121-9347db9f8f3b@yahoo.com" data-id="inline-image-guid-c086f98a-d570-3ac6-089a-e7254cadcb1b" alt="Inline image" style="width:100%;max-width:88px;max-height:85px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_4679"><br><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_4256"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_5949">I know, right?</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_4256"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_4256" dir="ltr"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_5212">From her estimation, and having seen the artwork this fragment belonged to, she thinks this piece would be approximately 3cm in height and 6 grams. The artwork was made on the North Shore of France, but it is not possible that other shells from other sources were incorporated in this work of art, but most came from that shore. </font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_4256" dir="ltr"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_4256" dir="ltr"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_5272">One suggestion was that this is a "</font><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_5267" class=""><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_5584">zig zag oyster" aka "cockscomb oyster" shell, but she would like to know where she might be able to source one for comparison. </font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_4256" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class=""><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_4256" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_6108"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_6107">Any other suggestions are welcome - realizing this is not a lot of information to go on. </font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_4256" dir="ltr"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_6133"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; white-space: nowrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_6054" class="">eleonora.e.nagy@gmail.com</span><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_4256" dir="ltr"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; white-space: nowrap;" class=""><br></span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_4256" dir="ltr"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; white-space: nowrap;" class=""><br></span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_4256" dir="ltr"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_4256"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_4256" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_4256"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455467185003_4256"><br></div></div></body></html>