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The origins of the Shell petrol brand are somewhat surprising, but certainly explain how it came to be called that and how its logo evolved. In 1833, a chap called Marcus Samuel opens a shop in London selling oriental seashells, which became popular decor. Indeed, going back earlier in time, but discovered in 1835, was the Shell Grotto in Margate, Kent, which is a series of underground tunnels adorned with millions of seashells arranged in intricate patterns and symbols. Anyway, I digress.
In the 1970s, the sons of Marcus Samuel, apparently called Marcus Jr and Samuel (surely not!) expanded the business into Japan selling kerosene and other goods, and thus establishing the company's foundations in petrol. In 1897 the Shell Transport and Trading Co was founded in the UK. In 1907, and to be able to properly compete on the international market, the company merges with Royal Dutch Petroleum Company to form Royal Dutch Shell. By 1904 the instantly recognisable shell logo was introduced, based on a scallop shell, an earlier logo based on mussel design had been dropped.
By 1924 the company had its first refinery in Stanlow, Cheshire. In 1932, and to cope with the effects of the great depression, the Shell Mex-BP group was formed for UK operations and lasted up to its eventual break up in 1975-1976.
Bit by bit the company grew and grew into pretty much every part of the world and just over a century later there is hardly a place in the world where one doesn't see a Shell petrol station.
For many years of its operation, the word Shell did not need to appear on the signs as the logo was so iconic by then that pretty much everyone knew the brand.
For a much more comprehensive history of the company look here
www.shell.com/who-we-are/our-history/our-company-history....
I've collected quite a few Shell branded keyrings, featuring a few of their post war logo variations.
Trying the B/W setting on the camera...interesting...this is almost straight out of the camera...may try pp in Topaz and see what can be achieved.
Digital collage based around image of baby in shell using lots of free brushes - now finished off with hand dyed lace and space dyed ribbon bows.
Shell
Miller's (2,450 square feet)
948 J Clyde Morris Boulevard, Newport News, VA
This location opened in fall 2000, replacing an older 1960s-built Shell/Miller Mart #66 that sat on the same site (known as "Bayberry Shell").
The pilgrim symbol of the scallop shell. Rue de la Citadelle, St-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France.A welcome sight for the thirsty pilgrim on the way to Santiago de Compostella by this well-travelled road towards the high pass of Roncevaux.
Regardless of the quality of the workshop where this sarcophagus was carved, its frieze repeats an iconographic scheme very similar to these used for the two sarcophagi housed at the Louvre Museum and at the Capitoline Museums, and both decorated with scenes of marine Thyasos.
From left, sea-centaur embracing and kissing a Nereid; the naked nymph is portrayed from behind. A second Nereid, frontally portrayed, is sitting on the tail of the same centaur, and supports an Erote with her right hand. At the center of the frieze, inside a shell-shaped clypeus, there is the bust of a beardless man. The clypeus is supported by two bearded sea-centaurs, which, turning their heads, are looking back. Under the clypeus two winged Cupids come out from waves. To the right of the clypeus, a scene symmetrical to the previous one is carved: a Nereid is sitting on a centaur' tail, and, in the far right, a pair consisting of a Nereid embraced to a marine centaur. In the lower part of the frieze, cupids and dolphins emerging from waves; on the short sides seahorses led by Erotes.
According to the iconographic features of the portrayed man, this sarcophagus could be located in the last decade of 2nd century AD.
Source:
Arias P.E. et alt., “Camposanto Monumentale di Pisa. Le Antichità”
Marble sarcophagus
Height 65 cm ; length 181 cm; width 60 cm.
End of 2nd century AD
Pisa, Antiquarium, Monumental Cemetery
Sliced Nautilus shell showing inside chambers.
This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,
Sail the unshadowed main,--
The venturous bark that flings
On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings
In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,
And coral reefs lie bare,
Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.
Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl;
Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
And every chambered cell,
Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,
As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell,
Before thee lies revealed,--
Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed!
Year after year beheld the silent toil
That spread his lustrous coil;
Still, as the spiral grew,
He left the past year's dwelling for the new,
Stole with soft step its shining archway through,
Built up its idle door,
Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,
Child of the wandering sea,
Cast from her lap, forlorn!
From thy dead lips a clearer note is born
Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn;
While on mine ear it rings,
Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings:
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
"The Chambered Nautilus"
-Oliver Wendall Holmes