Cabinet of Curiosities: Nudibranchia LbNA #34187
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Add Location| Owner: | mizjen
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| Plant date: | Aug 17, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | San Francisco |
| County: | San Francisco |
| State: | California |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Paul in SF
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| Found by: | ยต[sic] |
| Last found: | Aug 18, 2017 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Oct 25, 2024 |
This stamp is so amazing that we decided to adopt it. We had to dig for the clue on the Internet Archive/Wayback Machine, and it seems in danger of disappearing. So, here's the full clue, written by Paul in SF and planted in 2007. We visited on 10/25/2025, and the 17-year-old box is alive and well. -- mizjen and the Presidio Dragons
This item in the Cabinet of Curiosities comes from the personal collection of a very interesting character known as Captain Billy Slugg. Slugg joined the Brirish Naval Academy in 1832, and later on in his seafaring career was captain of a trading ship. Slugg's many voyages took him to exotic places where he began collecting oddities and treasures from places like Tasmania, the Spice Islands, Greenland, and the Ryukyu Islands. After crossing the oceans countless times, he settled in the Caribbean, using the island of Dominica as his home base. Over time, his curiosity cabinet included rare items, such as what was believed to be the remains of a mummified baby mermaid. Captain Billy Slugg's favorites were his many specimens of nudibranchs, which he found in rocky tidepools along various coastlines. He was dazzled by their brilliant colors, and the graceful, fluid movements of the creatures reminded him of the ruffled dresses of flamenco dancers. Jars and jars of carefully preserved Nudibranchia lined the shelves of his cabinet.
Over time, Captain Billy Slugg slugged down too much rum, gambled, and got heavily in debt. During one card game with a particularly nasty group of pirates, he was caught cheating and got slugged. The stakes were high, so Slugg lost his life, his ship, and his entire collection of oddities. Most of the items have vanished forever, but one specimen ended up on a pirate ship, and was passed down through time.
Today, the single remaining nudibranch from Slugg's cabinet sits in a place where if you were a pirate, you could go to buy Jolly Roger flags, eyepatches, spyglasses, and even purchase yourself a new peg leg!
To collect a captivating Nudibranch for your personal cabinet of curiosities*, go on a Mission. The shop where you can find such curiosities is on a street bearing the same name as a variety of oranges. The store is open Noon - 6:00 PM daily.
To discover the store's location on the street make a 3 digit number,
1st digit = Aye + VII
2nd digit = the number of Ayes on a parrot
3rd digit = the number of arms on a hexapus
Carefully enter this pirate's den, and ask to see Slugg's slug. Matey, don't forget to stock up on pirating supplies while you're in there!
*From Wikipedia: Cabinets of curiosities (also known as Wunderkammer or wonder-rooms) were collections of types of objects we now regard as quite separate, but whose boundaries were yet to be defined. They included specimens we would now categorize as belonging to natural history (and were sometimes faked), geology, ethnography, archaeology, religious or historical relics, works of art, including cabinet paintings, and antiquities. Some belonged to rulers, aristocrats or merchants, others to early practitioners of science in Europe, and were precursors to museums of different sorts.
The term cabinet originally described a room rather than a piece of furniture. Two of the most famously described 17th century cabinets were those of Ole Worm (also known as Olaus Wormius) (1588-1654), and Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680). These 17th-century cabinets were filled with preserved animals, horns, tusks, skeletons, minerals, and other types of objects. Often they would contain a mix of fact and fiction, including apparently mythical creatures. Worm's collection contained, for example, what he thought was a Scythian Lamb, a wooly fern thought to be a plant/sheep fabulous creature. However he was also responsible for identifying the narwhal's tusk as coming from a whale rather than a unicorn, as most owners of these believed. The specimens displayed were often collected during exploring expeditions and trading voyages.
This item in the Cabinet of Curiosities comes from the personal collection of a very interesting character known as Captain Billy Slugg. Slugg joined the Brirish Naval Academy in 1832, and later on in his seafaring career was captain of a trading ship. Slugg's many voyages took him to exotic places where he began collecting oddities and treasures from places like Tasmania, the Spice Islands, Greenland, and the Ryukyu Islands. After crossing the oceans countless times, he settled in the Caribbean, using the island of Dominica as his home base. Over time, his curiosity cabinet included rare items, such as what was believed to be the remains of a mummified baby mermaid. Captain Billy Slugg's favorites were his many specimens of nudibranchs, which he found in rocky tidepools along various coastlines. He was dazzled by their brilliant colors, and the graceful, fluid movements of the creatures reminded him of the ruffled dresses of flamenco dancers. Jars and jars of carefully preserved Nudibranchia lined the shelves of his cabinet.
Over time, Captain Billy Slugg slugged down too much rum, gambled, and got heavily in debt. During one card game with a particularly nasty group of pirates, he was caught cheating and got slugged. The stakes were high, so Slugg lost his life, his ship, and his entire collection of oddities. Most of the items have vanished forever, but one specimen ended up on a pirate ship, and was passed down through time.
Today, the single remaining nudibranch from Slugg's cabinet sits in a place where if you were a pirate, you could go to buy Jolly Roger flags, eyepatches, spyglasses, and even purchase yourself a new peg leg!
To collect a captivating Nudibranch for your personal cabinet of curiosities*, go on a Mission. The shop where you can find such curiosities is on a street bearing the same name as a variety of oranges. The store is open Noon - 6:00 PM daily.
To discover the store's location on the street make a 3 digit number,
1st digit = Aye + VII
2nd digit = the number of Ayes on a parrot
3rd digit = the number of arms on a hexapus
Carefully enter this pirate's den, and ask to see Slugg's slug. Matey, don't forget to stock up on pirating supplies while you're in there!
*From Wikipedia: Cabinets of curiosities (also known as Wunderkammer or wonder-rooms) were collections of types of objects we now regard as quite separate, but whose boundaries were yet to be defined. They included specimens we would now categorize as belonging to natural history (and were sometimes faked), geology, ethnography, archaeology, religious or historical relics, works of art, including cabinet paintings, and antiquities. Some belonged to rulers, aristocrats or merchants, others to early practitioners of science in Europe, and were precursors to museums of different sorts.
The term cabinet originally described a room rather than a piece of furniture. Two of the most famously described 17th century cabinets were those of Ole Worm (also known as Olaus Wormius) (1588-1654), and Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680). These 17th-century cabinets were filled with preserved animals, horns, tusks, skeletons, minerals, and other types of objects. Often they would contain a mix of fact and fiction, including apparently mythical creatures. Worm's collection contained, for example, what he thought was a Scythian Lamb, a wooly fern thought to be a plant/sheep fabulous creature. However he was also responsible for identifying the narwhal's tusk as coming from a whale rather than a unicorn, as most owners of these believed. The specimens displayed were often collected during exploring expeditions and trading voyages.