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Here’s some old business cards, I have a bunch of these. We posted stuff like this on the milk snke forum a while back and it was pretty cool to see how many were posted.

Here’s a few old price lists I have, just to see if these bring back memories for anybody. I love Flora and Fauna’s old list with the first hypo Brooks “un***ing Believable!!!” I threw out a bunch I wish I had saved.

Anybody remember this old price list? Was quite a stunner in it’s day.

Come on you pack rats, what cha got?

Gotta say, that was cool as hell. I wish I was into breeding snakes that long ago. I only field herped and let them go afterward in those days.

Man...the only two bits of "nostalgic" stuff I have are Klauber's "Rattlesnakes" and Kauffield's "Snakes: The Keeper and the Kept"

I've never seen price list like some of those!

That is cool....thanks for sharing those.....
I have a few of them from around the same time....
Trying to find them now....LOL
The only nostalgia I have on the computer right now is some pics out of some old books and magazines concerning Mexicana....
Some of the are SOOOOO wrong.....

The golden phase San Luis Potosi is funny now, but back then that is how it was identified......Now we call it a thayeri.....LOL
It is interesting in the fact that the early herpers were trying to identify what kingsnakes they were getting from Mexico....

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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

Yeah I don't know if you remember a place I think it was The Snake Shed, www.snakeshed.com maybe... bought my first corns and king from that place back in 1998 online! The website looked just like one of your brochures. Wonder if that guy is still around I think his name was Kevin or KJ I forget.
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- Matt

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>>Yeah I don't know if you remember a place I think it was The Snake Shed, www.snakeshed.com maybe... bought my first corns and king from that place back in 1998 online! The website looked just like one of your brochures. Wonder if that guy is still around I think his name was Kevin or KJ I forget.

The Snake Shed is now owned by Art McKay......
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

Yeah I used to put business cards in a picture frame....just like I'd do with my concert/event tix.
Lots of stuff you "forget" about...
Along the same vein..here's part of a price list from a friend who I got started with...Ray Singleton...

:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

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Too cool. What year was that!

We helped him move from (what's now) my neighborhood to Riverview,FL (guessing) around 1969-70. This list is from his Riverview Pet Farm...
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

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mark, put me down for a pair of extra long couperi at those prices, man-o-man!
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Todd Hughes

One of my first price lists I ever had looked very similar and was from some place in Florida. I just can’t remember the name. I could have sworn some of the snakes were priced by the foot. It had armadillos, coati mundi, gopher tortoise, mynah birds and boa constrictors too. All kinds of animals and birds. That is one I really wish I still had, I haven’t seen one like it since. I really think it might have been that one, though because the layout, font and everything is really bringing back memories.

Back in the late 1960's I use to order gopher tortoises from Thompson Wild Animal Farm in Clewiston Florida. They would be shipped in a cardboard box and take about three months to arrive in Illinois. Cost $2.00. Their price list was amazing. The also sold ocelots, capuchin monkeys, chimps, etc. They sold indigo snakes by the foot. I would read and re-read their price list until it flat wore out!

I went there and bought my very first diamondback and water moccasin! I was underage, had no permit and carried them out in a pillow case. That might have even been where that price list came from I was thinking of, but I don’t think that was it. I think the tortoises were swamp chickens on his list?

Thing is... I remember telling him his prices were way too high!
Can you imagine a wooly monkey for a hundred bucks? I could afford the squirrel monkey for $18.
Ocelots and margays, coatis, jagaurundi, marmosets, you name it.
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

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I am certain that is the list I am remembering. I am having such a weird feeling that I want to own that list again and look it over, why I can’t say, but I guess it was such a big deal to me and has a nice fuzzy feeling in my mind of a long ago time. It was really early on in my journey into this hobby. I guess that’s what memorabilia is all about to those that collect it.

This particular list I was able to get from someone here on one of the Forums a few years back. Of course, I had a drawer full of 'em back in the day but just had to have this one since they're long gone. More because I was a part of this and I could connect with all those memories than anything else but it is good to elicit other's responses, accounts, and memories as well.
Great stuff, I say!
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

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Selling the eggs and incubation directions! I'm thinking that could come back soon! Three species of Python eggs $150 You never know, maybe a loophole.(if they dont read this).I can see the new advertisments now. "I am the egg man" Python egg farm! "Hatch me if you can" "Eggutopia". Vic

what year was this?
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wake me when its april

Doug L

It had to be before passage of the Threatened and Endangered Species Act (I think 1973) or at least before eastern indigos were listed. I am certain no one was captive raising them back then. Nobody was captive raising much of anything back then!

You're right about the "before they were listed" part but wrong assuming " I am certain no one was captive raising them back then. Nobody was captive raising much of anything back then!"
You're right to assume most everything was wc but there were some people who were breeding lots of different species and I had good luck w/ Drymarchonas well as kings, corns, etc.
:Mark

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Surrender Dorothy!

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I stand corrected. What I recall from that era is that the snake keepers I knew were very intent upon keeping temps high and would never risk cooling their specimens in fall/winter to encourage spring breeding. We were all unecessarily afraid of respiratory infections! The only hatchlings I ever saw were from eggs laid by already gravid wild caught females. Also, half the fun of keeping snakes was collecting our own.

yup for sure. Indigos breed late in the year, thorugh winter even...at least mine did. I remember waiting...and waiting....for the eggs to hatch. I think some were at around a hundred days and to a kid used to 50-60 days for ratsnakes and kings etc.,that was an awful long time! We used either peat moss or newspaper covered with damp sphagnum moss. I had my share of failures too, of course...
Can you imagine if we had the digital cameras and stuff we do nowadays?
Most of those days are just in a fog of memory and it's getting foggier!
ha!
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

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Here’s the first price list with the hypo Brooks, and an old one from Lloyd Lemke with his “anerythristic Brooks”.

LLemke’s list- note: no albino hondurans yet. Albino Nelsons- $2,000.00.

Wonder what these go for as collectors items

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wake me when its april

Doug L