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curiosity number 045
Mario Fedi (photo Andrea Nappo)
Shell of rice
    The beautiful Epitonium scalare was considered for centuries one of the most beautiful and rare shells (and thus one of the expensiv expensive in the word), so as to be forged with rice noodles and patients by skilled Eastern craftsmen (legend has it that some Chinese traders sold one that was created with rice paste to the Empress Catherine of Russia to a colossal fortune).