Vasticardium elongatum (Bruguiere 1789) Gorgeous Large Heavy! F+++/Gem 81,8 mm. Very beautiful. Cream and white color with purplish, pale pink, brown, beige, lavender marks, attractive spiny ribs and sculpture. Trawled. Pattani, Thailand 1980's

Oliva sayana Ravenel 1834 Gorgeous Large! F+++/Gem 62,9 mm. Very beautiful. Cream/white, brown, bluish, gray and beige color attractive pattern. White, bluish/white, blue base, aperture, lip with brown marks. Has slightly chipped protoconch. Taken in sand at shallow water. Palm Beach, Florida 1970

Spondylus americanus Hermann 1781 Gorgeous Superb Long spines! F+++ 120 mm. Including the spines. Body size 75 mm. Very beautiful. Upper and lower valve white color with pale orange umbo, attractive almost perfect very long spines and rays of small sharp body spines in upper and lower valve. Has small worm drills on lower valve and chipped some small body spines doesn't detract from it's overall beauty. From my personal collection. Dived at 10-20 m. Palm Beach, Florida 1974

Echinophoria kurodai (Abbott 1968) Gorgeous! F+++ 71,1 mm. Very beautiful. Cream, white color with attractive spiral knobs and cords. White pale beige aperture and lip with fine teeth. Has chipped canal terminal. Trawled at 440 m. Off Port Hedland, Western Australia 1990

Plaxiphora obtecta P. P. Carpenter 1893 Gorgeous Ornamented! F+++/Gem 37,7 mm. Very beautiful. Black, gray and beige color attractive pattern and sculpture with granulose, fine nodulose cords and spiny margin. Inside blue color with black marks. Taken on rocks at low tide. Motutara, Auckland, North Isl. New Zealand 1972

Columbarium spinicinctum caragarang Garrard 1966 Gorgeous Special Form Rare! F++ 53 mm. Very beautiful. White and yellowish/cream color with beige dots, attractive sculpture with almost perfect shoulder spines and knobby low body cord, long spiny siphon. White aperture and lip. Has a damage hole near the aperture and chipped the side of the canal. Trawled at 70 fathoms. Off North Light, southern Qld. Australia 1980

Tonna perdix (Linne 1758) Gorgeous! F+++ 102,7 mm. Very beautiful. White color with brown, beige marked attractive large cords. White, pale grayish ribbed aperture and brown, beige lip. Has a growth mark on the base and few micro defects. Taken in coral sand at shallow water. Viti-Levu, Fiji 1990

Tonna tesselata (Lamarck 1816) Gorgeous Superb! Gem 53 mm. Very beautiful. Pale bluish and white color with attractive tones of beige marked large cords. Beige slightly corded aperture and white thick lip with teeth. Trawled. Bali, Indonesia 1990

Cominella glandiformis (Reeve 1847) Outstanding! F++ 23 mm. Very beautiful. Pale grayish, bluish and cream color with knobby shoulder. White, brown aperture and thin lip. Has a growth mark on the dorsum, slightly chipped protoconch and chipped rough lip. Taken on exposed sand and mud flats at low tide. KawaKawa Bay, North Isl. New Zealand 1972

Cominella maculosa (Martyn 1784) Outstanding Large! F+++ W/O 43 mm. Very beautiful. Yellowish/cream and white color with black, brown and blue marks. Yellow aperture with black marks and lip. Has few micro defects and nicks. Taken under rocks at low tide. Mt. Maunganui, North Isl. New Zealand 1994

Semicassis zeylanica iredalei (Bayer 1935) Gorgeous Rare Subspecies! F+++ W/O 46,8 mm. Very beautiful. Cream color with soft beige marks. White base, aperture with gray marks and thick lip with brown marks. Has slightly growth marks and lines. Dived at 15 m. in sand. Off Sunny Cove, Capetown, Cape Province, South Africa 1989

Haliotis rubra Leach 1814 Gorgeous Victoria Form! F+++/Gem  105 mm. Very beautiful special color. Dark red and brown color with attractive white pattern and granulose cords. Inside iridescent bluish color. Has few chips. Dived at 10-15 m. on rocks. Flat Rock, Victoria, Australia 1993