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How seashells shaped the world — and predict our future
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Samuel Junior's Shell Oil Company
Marius samuel senior is the one who developed these terrific trade relationships with japan specifically. And so he he sold shells for craft but the big things that really made him pretty wealthy were these little sea shell bejewelled gift boxes. He thought of the idea of selling them as tourist items at the beaches around the united kingdom. So the little shell boxes and sea shells themselves made the family's first fortune. Then in the next generation, his sons, he had three sons, and they were still working out of samuel's little sea shell shop. By the time the next generation comes along, family were majorly trading with japan and other parts of the east. And the son
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