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My Wife's dad found this book the other day and let me have it, the book has just about every snake in FL and a old photo of a FL king. I tried to find a date but it eluded me last night could of been me being so tired hehe..

Thought some people might like to see it as well, enjoy.

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Jason A.
"Long time Herper, first year Breeder `07."

I think it may have been published by the author at his place, Gatorland.
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

crimsonking.piczo.com/

"Poisonous", capital letters in the species and subspecies name... I love it lol...

Interchangebly they also use "venomous"...elsewhere..
I guess more people get it when you use "poisonous"!
Gotta love it no matter. I am becoming more interested in the older writings etc. these days.
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

crimsonking.piczo.com/

So Mark...is this pretty typical of Florida herpers in the field?

Just kidding! Gotta love that tie.

Cheers,

Bob

www.SierraHerps.com

That's EXACTLY the same outfit I usually wear when I go herping through the brush..........but I hate when my paisley print tie gets snagged up in the twigs and branches!..LOL

~Doug

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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

Came in handy as a tourniquet when using your glass snakebite suction kit!

thats pretty cool, check this out.brand new never been opened and the experation date on it is 1973.

Shannon

Wow Shannon!,....where did you dig that up from,....an old Ross Allen's garage sale?..LOL

That's some cool herp memorabilia that people like us will pay good money for one day!

~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

Thanks, yeah a good friend of mine that is a herpatologist gave it to me.He recieved it in vietnam.
I love all kinds of Snake stuff.
L8r

this is pretty cool too.
shannon

That's dated 1964 in the corner, isn't it?.......I know that's being displayed like an original "Picasso" in your "snake" room!..LOL

~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

yep, the real deal.

I'm not sure when I got this, but I know it is pretty old. There was no I-95 on the map!
I met Bill Haast, sold him snakes, could have bought "Cobra's In His Garden" in the gift shop for thirteen bucks, got it autographed, had my picture taken, etc. I never even kept the receipts from the snakes I sold! I would die for all that stuff now!
Here's the old brochure-
Enjoy!

man, that is killer. I love this kinda stuff.

L8r

LOL!!,........Man!, I remember that brochure! AS a matter of fact, in 1974 I went to the serpentarium with my parents for my 14th birthday, and Bill autographed ~Cobras in His Garden~ for me!....I also remember seeing that GIGANTIC Estuarine crocodile he had that later killed that kid that fell into the pit. I think the croc was named "Stumpy" or something, because he bit off almost his entire tail himself!,..remember that one?

What fond memories!..LOL

~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

That stuff comes in handy when you have an encounter with the infamous "Two-step"!,.......but I doubt you could administer any that fast!..hahahaha!!!

I love anything to do with snakes too, and I'll post some stuff for ya soon!

~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

What? No bottle of Potassium permanganate to rub into the snake bite?
Somebody should have a display of this type memorabilia in Daytona!

Darn right it did!,...the blood doesn't show up on the busy print like it would on a plain colored tie!

~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

Crimson King got it right. Owen Godwin, old time Florida “wild boy”. Owned Gatorland way back in 50’s (?) I would love to own a copy of that old book. I bet it’s pretty rare. Scan some more pages and post ‘em! (sure is a skinny pine snake)

n/p
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

I love the Latin/scientific name in that book for the Mole snake, Lampropeltis calligaeter chombomaculata. That's a classic! Seeing how that book is pretty old, I'm wondering if he is useing doliata for species (Milk snakes) and not triangulum?

Scott D

Yeah,...that was a good one!..LOL,...it also seems that amongst his many typographical errors, he referred to the latin name for Scarlet Kings as "Dolita", instead of "doliata" as it should have been spelled. There are many typos in that pamphlet, that is for SURE!

Good ol' Owen was certainly better at catching snakes, fishing, hunting, butchering hogs, chewing tobacco, etc...than he was at writing!, or at least his proof-reader was!...hahahaha!

~Doug

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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

Well with all those typos it keeps it from getting dull and keeps you on your thinking toes..LOL! Still would be a classic to add the herp library.

BTW that shure is a purty Dolita you got dare!

Scott D

Why I thank ya kindly,...I recon it is!,...I had that young'n a good spell back. Had 'em pert near 10 years!..LOL

good ol' Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

On Amazon but I bought both copies. Couldn't resist, each copy had different copyright date 1961 and 1973. =)
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B

book whore.LOL.....

I love snake books.I have been collecting them for about 20 years now.I think that the state specific books are my fav's.I have about 40 of them.

L8r