My late Uncle Georgie (who'd now be about 95yo), went off to work on a pearling lugger (on Thursday Island?) in the 1940s or early 50s. He painted the back of a couple of pearl shells and sent them home to his mum (my grandma). We thought they were lost long ago (last seen in the late 70s) but i found them when we moved here.

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