Phenatoma roseum (Quoy & Gaimard 1833) Gorgeous Superb! Gem 24,8 mm. Very beautiful. Cream/white color, attractive sculpture with knobby and nodulose shoulder and granulose body cords. Bluish/white aperture and lip with teeth. Take in sand at shallow water. Stoney Point, Pilot Bay, Mt. Manganui, North Isl. New Zealand 1979

Voluta Amoria canaliculata (F. McCoy 1869) Gorgeous Superb Ornamented! F+++ 46 mm. Very beautiful and glossy. White and cream color with attractive tones of orange spiral marks and filamentosa axial lines. White aperture and lip. Has few micro defects and nicks. Trawled. Swains Reefs, Great Barrier, Qld. Australia 2009

Cypraea pyrum dwarf (Gmelin 1791) Gorgeous Gray Sides Violet Lip Exceptional! F+++/Gem 32,4 mm. Very beautiful and exceptional. Cream, white, brown, gray and beige color attractive pattern and unusual gray sides. Orange color margins and base with violet lip among the white teeth. Has few micro defects. Mediterranean populations are now protected this is from old collection. From Greek trawlers. Unknown locality 1978

Swiftopecten swiftii (Bernard 1858) Gorgeous Violet Knobby! Gem 85,7 mm. Very beautiful. Upper valve tones of violet and cream/white color with purplish marks, attractive large densely knobs and slightly nodulose body. Lower valve white, purplish and lilac color. Trawled at 60-75 m. Off Iwate, North Hoshu, Japan 2013

Cypraea punctata Linne 1771 Outstanding Sparse Spots! Gem 10,3 mm. Very beautiful and unusual. Bluish/white color with sparse large brown spots. White base and margins with brown, beige spots. Taken under dead coral at 1-2 m. in the reef. Rovondrau Bay, Viti Levu, Fiji 1970

Cypraea cervinetta Kiener 1843 Gorgeous Southern Range Form! F+++ 65,5 mm. Very beautiful. Brown and beige color background with soft grayish bands, attractive clear cream/white spots and mantle line. Margins and base beige, gray color with white spots, blackish and brown teeth. Has few micro defects and a small drill hole on the base. Taken under rocks at 2-5 m. Noboa View, Punta Blanca, Santa Elena, Ecuador 2000

Plicifusus scissuratus Dall 1918 Outstanding! F+++ W/O 47,6 mm. Very beautiful. Cream and beige color with attractive fine nodulose cords and knobby ribs. White aperture and lip. Has few small drill marks and slightly chipped protoconch. Trawled at 300-350 m. Off Abashiri, Hokkaido, Japan 2020

Laevichlamys squamosa (Gmelin 1791) Gorgeous Red/Orange! F+++ 47 mm. Large and very beautiful uncommon color. Red, orange, yellowish and mauve color with fine spines. Has a small defect and few nicks. Zamboanga 2008

Voluta Festilyria festiva lizae (Childs, R. Aiken & Bail, 2020) Gorgeous! F+++ 88,2 mm. Very beautiful. Cream color with attractive orange, brown, black and beige pattern, spiral knobs and soft ribs. Bluish/white aperture and cream nodulose lip. Has few healed slightly growth marks doesn't detract from it's overall beauty. Trawled at 30 m. Masirah Isl. Oman 2024

Monoplex intermedius (Pease 1869) Gorgeous! F+++/Gem W/O 42,6 mm. Very beautiful, rare in Hawaii. White and tones of yellowish/orange color with brown varices blotches, attractive knobby and nodulose cords. Pale orange, white ribbed aperture with blackish lines and thick lip with teeth. The protoconch is slightly chipped. Dived at 50 feet. Kahe Point, Oahu, Hawaii 1989

Ovula ovum (Linne 1758) Outstanding Unusual! Gem 77,1 mm. Very beautiful. Dorsum white color with unusual yellowish mark on the columellar side. White relief margin and base, deep orange, gray and black aperture. Self collected on soft corals at 3-4 m. Arena Isl. Barangay, Palawan April 1999

Pollia subcostata (Krauss 1848) Outstanding Uncommon! F+++/Gem W/O 20,8 mm. Very beautiful. Cream, white, beige color with brown marks, attractive nodulose cords. White, beige ribbed aperture and lip with fine teeth. The protoconch is chipped. Taken under rocks in tide pools. Klein Baai, Cape Province, South Africa 1996

Olivancillaria teaguei Klappenbach 1964 Outstanding Rare! F+++/Gem 19,5 mm. Very beautiful. White body and cream color over the canal. Bluish/white base with callus, aperture, thin lip and cream canal. Has a nick. Taken on sand at low tide. La Coronilla, North La Paloma, Uruguay 1978

Voluta ebraea Linne 1758 Gorgeous Colorful! F+++ 123,4 mm. W/O Very beautiful and heavy. Cream and white color background with attractive brown, beige, orange, black, blue pattern and marks, small shoulder spines. Yellowish, cream, white base, aperture and lip with black marks  Has undulations normal for this species, little chipped canal terminal and nicks on the lip doesn't detract from it's overall beauty. Trawled at 15 fathoms. Off north Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil 1970

Cypraea turdus Lamarck 1810 Gorgeous Bluish Callosus!Gem 34,8 mm. Very beautiful heavy and callosus. Pale bluish color background with attractive beige and brown spots. White color base and callosus margins with few soft beige spots. Taken on reef in very shallow water. East Plage des Sables Blancs, Tajdourah, Djibouti, East Africa 2010

Vexillum (Costellaria) daedalum (Reeve 1845) Gorgeous Colorful! Gem 10,6 mm. Very beautiful. Cream, orange, black, brown and white color with attractive granulose ribs. Body color ribbed aperture and lip with fine teeth. Dredged at 20-30 m. Ouvea Isl. East New Caledonia 2002