What is it?

[Richard Brown]

What beautiful pieces of furniture! And the fittings are amazing. A great challenge, many thanks, Richard.

Thank you Stranding and Leelai.

We love our pieces of oriental furniture. The chest and the Ming altar table/cabinet are inherited from my late parents. When dad and mum were living in Burma, they brought the furniture in from Hong Kong, air-freighted for free. My dad was in aviation. Aircraft engines were lifted by Dakota from Rangoon to HK for overhaul, and our parents pieces of furniture were flown back in the empty plane.

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[stranding]

Thanks,Leelai.
Here's my challenge.
What is it? Where would you find one like it?

I'm wary of this. Seems too easy to be right. And I'm off out any time so don't want to win!
A shell, found usually on a beach?

 

[scifan57]

I'm wary of this. Seems too easy to be right. And I'm off out any time so don't want to win!
A shell, found usually on a beach?

Ah,but what kind of shell? This shell was still inhabited when I found it. Where would the living creature be found? What parts of the world?
Here's some more pictures.

 

[stranding]

Ah,but what kind of shell? This shell was still inhabited when I found it. Where would the living creature be found? What part of the world?
Here's some more pictures.

It looks like a cowrie shell, which were traditionally used as currency around the Pacific islands. They are amazing structures, like all shells, with the sounds of the seas to hear within them. I presume the inhabitant was edible & has now long been edibled? It might have been a hermit crab squatter when you found it?

Just seen last photo & don't think that is correct now.

 

[scifan57]

You're correct,it's not a cowrie shell.Yes,these shellfish are indeed edible.

 

[stranding]

You're correct,it's not a cowrie shell.

Must leave this for another beachcomber!

 

[AdmiralAdama]

Queen Conch? (Strombus gigas). Its territorial range is the Western Atlantic from North Carolina to Bermuda?

AA

 

[scifan57]

It's a conch shell but not the Queen conch. This one is a smaller species;I don't know which one.
In light of this you have successfully solved the challenge.

Your's is the challenge,Admiral.

 

[AdmiralAdama]

Likely the Crown ( Golden ) Conch. About two dozen catalogued variations of this species which are prevalent in intertidal zones of the Atlantic and Pacific.
AA

 

[scifan57]

Likely the Crown ( Golden ) Conch. About two dozen catalogued variations of this species which are prevalent in intertidal zones of the Atlantic and Pacific.
AA

It could also be the Milk Conch.
http://species-identification.org/s...ide&menuentry=soorten&id=400&tab=beschrijving

 

[AdmiralAdama]

What is this? Looking for specific branding too.
AA

 

[scifan57]

What is this? Looking for specific branding too.
AA
<img src="http://www.ipadforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=18962"/>

Is it Jughead eating a burger in an Archie cartoon or comic strip?

 

[AdmiralAdama]

I should never underestimate the the Norse appreciation of pop culture.

AA

 

[scifan57]

What is this ? What is it part of? What setting would you expect to find it in?

 

[scifan57]

Here's another photo.