Raffle

Congratulations on winning the October raffle, Karen Mazer!

There is no raffle at this time. Check back in 2025 for more raffles.

Your financial support is essential to our work, and deeply appreciated. Our monthly raffle is one way that we generate funds to support educational programming, care and conservation of our collections, facility upkeep and improvements, and essential administrative tasks.

Shell Collector’s Delight AND a Lifetime Membership to NHSM

About Our Prize

Shell Collector’s Delight AND a Lifetime Membership to NHSM

This month, the Natural History Society of Maryland is raffling off a truly sand-sational prize! Summer may have come to an end, but the winner of our October raffle will be able to keep the beach with them all year long. Our Shell Collector’s Delight package includes stunning shells both large and small, books to expand your understanding of these amazing specimens, and a glass display box to help you put them front and center in your home or office. And with a Lifetime Membership to NHSM as part of the prize, we will guarantee endless opportunities to fuel your curiosity about the ocean and all other aspect of the natural world.

Shells in this prize package are primarily from the Indo-Pacific/Phillippines with the exception of those noted below. The Shell Collector’s Delight includes:

1. Chambered Nautilus (Cephalopod) – Nautilus pompilius
2. Spiny Oyster (on plastic, top half only) – Spondylus americanus
3. Trapezium Horse Conch – Pleuroploca trapezium (South Florida)
4. Black Murex – Hexaplex nigritus
5. Two Cowries –a) Tiger Cowrie – Cypraea tigris,  b) Egg cowrie – Ovula ovum
6. Minor Harp Shell – Harpa harpa
7. Great Green Turban Shell (Polished) –  Turbo marmoratus
8. Two Spider Conchs – a) Orange Spider Conch – Lambis crocata, b) Miliped Spider Conch – Lambis millipeda
9. Snipe’s Bill Murex – Murex longicaudus
10. Endive Murex – Chicoreus cichoreum
11. Larger Spider Conch (top left) – Lambis lambis
12. Large Sundial – Architectonica maxima
13. Bull Mouth Helmet (Cameo Helmet) – Cypraecassis rufa
14. Episcopal Miter – Mitra mitra
15. Florida Fighting Conch – Strombus alatus (South Florida)
16. Lighting Whelk – Busycon contrarium (South Florida)
17. Assorted Limpet shells (4)
18. …. plus a bonus MYSTERY BOX of small shells you will love!

The winner will also receive two books: 1) A hard-copy edition of the visually stunning The Book of Shells: A Life-Size Guide to Identifying and Classifying Six Hundred Seashells by M. G. Harasewych and Fabio Moretzsohn, and 2) A copy of the superb A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies (The Peterson Field Guide).

* The winner will need to be able to pick up their prize at the Natural History Society of Maryland’s Overlea, MD location, at a date and time mutually agreed upon. Shipping is not available.

PLUS

With a Lifetime Membership to NHSM (value $1000), you will receive discounts on many of our programs—from lectures, workshops, and courses offered in our museum, to canoe trips, nature walks, and fossil hunts in the great outdoors.

Raffle Information and Rules

1.    Support us by purchasing a ticket.

2.    For every $5 ticket you buy your name will be entered once (i.e. $5=1 entry, $10=2 entries, etc.)

3.    Cut-off date to be entered is October 31, 2024 at midnight.

4.    The winner will be chosen at random and announced on the NHSM website and social media on  November 5, 2024. The winner will also be notified via email.

5.    The prize is for specified items only. No substitutions.

6. The winner will need to be able to pick up their prize at the Natural History Society of Maryland’s Overlea, MD location, at a date and time mutually agreed upon. Shipping is not available.

7.    NHSM officers, directors and employees are ineligible to enter the Raffle. Immediate family members of NHSM employees (defined as: spouse, siblings, parents, children) are also not eligible to enter or win. Any entry from an ineligible person is void.

8.   Raffle ticket purchases do not qualify as tax deductible contributions, per IRS Publication 526.

9.    Lifetime Membership goes to one person and that person must be 18 years of age or older.  Lifetime Membership is non-transferable. It will only be awarded to the person who purchased the ticket. Lifetime Membership allows the member to receive discounts on programs for him/herself, a significant other, and children under the age of 18 living in the same household.

*If you win a NHSM raffle more than once, you will only receive one Lifetime membership.

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