Granulifusus consimilis Garrad 1966 Outstanding! F++ 26,4 mm. Very beautiful fragile Australian form. Cream and pale beige color with attractive granulose cords. White aperture and lip. Has thin immature chipped lip doesn't detract from it's overall beauty. Dredged at 200-300 m. Off Gladstone, Capricorn Channel, Qld. Australia 1985

Chlamys farreri nipponensis Kuroda 1932 Gorgeous Large Dark! F+++/Gem 69 mm. Very beautiful. Brown, black, beige, cream and white color pattern, attractive sculpture with large lamellate ribs and fine nodulose body. Taken at 3-6 m. Posjet Bay, Vladivostok area, Siberia, Russia 1990

Cypraea carneola (Linne 1758) Gorgeous Superb!Gem 33 mm. Very beautiful. Orange and cream color banded dorsum with bluish/white soft ring. Cream margins and base with dark lavender aperture. Self collected under stone and dead coral in shallow water. Siladen Isl. Manado, North Sulawesi May 1998

Cypraea isabella controversa dwarf Gray 1824 Gorgeous Super Slender Lilliput! Gem 15 mm. Very beautiful. Yellowish/beige color with black axial stripes and dots. Margins and base white, cream color with orange terminals and  orange/brown terminal marks. Taken under dead corals in shallow water. Ewa Beach, West Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii 1975

Gloripallium pallium (Linne 1758) Gorgeous Purple!F+++/Gem 51,7 mm. Very beautiful. Purple, cream, black and white colors attractive pattern and almost perfect lamellate ribs. Self collected under stone and dead coral at shallow water. Bunaken Isl. Manado, North Sulawesi May 1998

Babylonia valentiana Swainson 1822 Gorgeous Giant Heavy! F++/F+++ 68,1 mm. Very beautiful and heavy. Cream/white color with attractive bluish, mauve, beige, gray, brick and brown pattern. Body color and white base, aperture and lip. Has two growth marks, few micro defects and a chip doesn't detract from it's overall beauty. Trawled at 80-100 m. Off Hafun, Somalia 1990

Conus testudinarius Hwass 1792 Gorgeous! F++ 62,8 mm. Very beautiful and heavy. White color with attractive brown, beige pattern. White, bluish, grown aperture and lip. Has few micro defects and chipped rough upper side of the lip. Dived at 15-20 in sand between rocks. Off Palm Beach, Florida 1970

Oliva amethystina (Roding 1798) Gorgeous Special Pattern!F+++/Gem 36,3 mm. Very beautiful unusual local form. Pale yellow color background with attractive tones of gray, beige pattern and black shoulder marks. White, pale orange aperture and lip. Has nicks on the upper lip. Taken on sand in shallow water. Moturiki Isl. Lomaiviti Group, Fiji 1970

Oliva australis Duclos 1835 Outstanding! Gem 26,7 mm. Very beautiful. Cream and white color with beige, brown spots, brown shoulder marks and over the canal. White aperture and lip. Taken in sand at low tide. Port Lincoln, South Australia 1984

Laevistrombus guidoi (Man in't Veld & De Turck 1998) Gorgeous Rare White Large! F+++ 50,8 mm. Very beautiful and glossy. Pure white color with few cords on low body. White base with callus, aperture and lip. Has micro defects, little chipped protoconch and canal, scratch on upper lip. Taken in coral sand at low tide. Efate, Vanuatu 2001

Cypraea cinerea brasiliensis dwarf Lorenz & Hubert 1993 Gorgeous Special Cylindrical Form! Gem 18,6 mm. Very beautiful. Beige color with exceptional black, gray densely large marks. Cream color base and margins with black dots. Dived at 25-30 m. under dead corals. Off Abrolhos National Park, southern Bahia, Brazil 2022

Limatula maoria Finlay 1927 Gorgeous Slender Species! F+++/Gem 24 mm. Very beautiful, hard to get. White color with attractive fine sculpture. Taken under rocks at shallow water. Spirits Bay, North Isl. New Zealand 1990

Bassina disjecta (Perry 1811) Gorgeous Frilly! F++ H 42 W 57 mm. Very beautiful. Cream/white color with attractive frilly cream and pale pinkish lamellas. Some lamellas are chipped. Taken live on sand after storm. Semaphore, Adelaide, South Australia 1980

Haliotis australis Gmelin 1791 Gorgeous! F+++ 57,9 mm. Very beautiful. White, cream, beige, brown and pale orange color pattern, attractive sculpture with knobby ribs and fine cords. Inside iridescent bluish color with attractive sculpture. The margin has 14 mm. damage and two drill marks on the top. Taken under rock ledges at extreme low tide. Stewart Isl. New Zealand 1970

Bufonaria crumena (Lamarck 1816) Gorgeous Superb! Gem W/O 57,9 mm. Very beautiful. Cream and white color with brown, beige marks, attractive spiral spines and fine nodulose cords. White and yellow nodulose and ribbed base, aperture and knobby, ribbed lip. Trawled. Tuticorin, Gulf of Mannar, India 1983