Ehi, another amazing collective
thread for collectors, thank you
Peter!
John, your coins from
Kroton are beautiful, congratulations! I
hope some day you will share pics of your whole
collection, I imagine it amazing!
When I was about 20 I started collecting real living snakes, I
had an entire conditioned room for them, full of terrariums, with couples of royal pythons,
red tailed boa, elaphe obsoleta, lampropeltis mexicana etc.; I always bought specimens born in captivity, never caught in the wild. I loved to hold them crawling on my skin, in particular boa and pythons, that conveyed a very strong feeling of ancestral calm and power. My favorite was a
red tailed boa I named
Asklepios. Now I have stopped with that strange hobby and I gave or sold all them, because in recent years my continuous movements in different cities would not allow me to treat with due care all those beautiful beasts. Recently I gave to a friend of mine the last one I
had left, a royal python I named Sigmund.
Nick, I
hope you
still want me as associate researcher after I disclosed all this!!
All the best
Nico