THE SHELLS
Enjoy browsing through these pages for a variety of select quality specimen seashells, I hope you find something interesting...
Zoila Exceptional - POR Volutidae Strombidae Turbinidae Cypraeidae Muricidae Various Conidae Bivalves Haliotidae Pectinidae Ranellidae
Cypraea friendii vercoi GOLDEN FORM (#4314)
F++/F+++ 72.8mm. Here we have a rather lovely example of the very rare Golden/orange colour form of vercoi! It has several small faults but colour is lovely & it presents extremely well…Collected by diver, south coast of Western Australia…
Cypraea friendii kostini (#4306)
F+++ 64.5mm Creamy white with fine peppery speckles over the dorsum, a beautiful heavy & solid piece! Just a couple of well glossed & discreet single layer fish bite imperfections…
Altivasum flindersi (#4299)
F+++ 180mm. An impressive large, freshly dead collected piece with excellent heavy mature lip, nicely spined, clean & with lovely colour all the way to the fine spire tip…I rarely see them so large & in such nice condition.
Cypraea jeaniana aurata (#4293)
Gem- 79mm. A beautiful classic aurata! Timeless…Deep water NW Australia.
Cypraea rosselli f. abrolhosensis (#4284)
F++/F+++ 60.5mm. A large & spectacular specimen from this elusive population! Several natural imperfections but terminals perfect…A very impressive piece!
Cypraea thersites (#4269)
F+++/Gem 100.7mm. GIANT! One of the largest thersites specimens I have seen in many many years…Collected by diver from Thorny Passage South Australia in 1994! Exceptionally rare this size today…
Cypraea venusta (#4264)
F+++/Gem 64.9mm. This is a beautiful piece from the small inshore population of Munglinup Beach on the south coast of WA! Soft fleshy pink with darker orange spotting…
Timbellus bednalli (#4258)
F+++/Gem 75.6mm w/op. The famous “Butterfly Murex” A large & exceptionally nice quality specimen! An enduring rarity…
Volutoconus grossi grossi (#4253)
F+++/Gem 93mm Spectacular large, dark pink coloured specimen, trawled off Sandy Cape Q’Land 1998!
Cypraea thersites contraria (#4236)
F+++ 70.5mm. A very attractively coloured/patterned piece & very heavy! Trawled from the Great Australian Bight, south Australia.