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Lot 31

Banded Bonnet

Phalium bandatum (Perry, 1811)

Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia

94mm Donated by the Truckner family

Lot 32 Rose-branch Murex

Chicoreus palmarosae (Lamarck, 1822)

Pigeon Island, Sri Lanka w/op. 93mm

Lot 33 Colorful Queen Miter

Vexillum regina filiaregina J. Cate, 1961

Philippines 68mm

Donated by Mique Pinkerton

Lot 34 Queen Miter

Vexillum regina (Sowerby, 1828)

Philippines 52mm

Donated by Mique Pinkerton

Lot 35 Manus Green Papuina

Papuina pulcherrima Rensch, 1931

Papua New Guinea 42mm

Lot 36 Texas Lightning Whelk

Busycon perversum pulleyi (Hollister, 1958)

Galveston Bay, Texas 86 – 109mm

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Lot 37 Basket of Shells (Basket diameter—14”)

Decorated Basket filled with shells – an instant shell collection.

Lot 38 Decoration - Angel (approx. 5” tall)

Donated by Irmgard Cate

Lot 40 OBX Key Ring

Donated by Nancy Long

Lot 39 Decoration - Holiday Elf (approx. 31” tall)

Donated by Dora Zimmerman

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Lot 41 American Thorny Oyster

Spondylus americanus Hermann, 1781

Florida 105mm

Lot 42 Glory-of-the-seas Cone

Conus gloriamaris Chemnitz, 1777

Indo-Pacific, (no data) 90mm

Note: small growth mend filled by a “Shell Doctor

Lot 43 Lavender Scallop Necklace and Earrings

Silver chain and posts. Pierced earrings

Donated by Mique Pinkerton

Lot 44 Orange Scallop Necklace and 2 Pairs of Earrings

Gold filled chain and posts. Pierced Earrings

Donated by Mique Pinkerton

ot 45 Book, Conchs, Tibias, and Harps; Walls

A must have book for these two popular Genera of shells.

Donated by the Truckner Family

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Lot 46 Cone Shells; J. G. Walls

Excellent book for the shell library covering this

large Genera of shells.

Lot 47 Cowries; Taylor & Walls

For the general and specialist shell library.

Donated by the Truckner Family

Lot 48 Compendium of Seashells; Abbott & Dance

Third Printing, 1986 Excellent condition

Arguably one of the most popular general shell

identification books ever printed.

Note: Throughout eight printings the only differ-

ence was the addition of a page noting nomencla-

ture changes since the previous edition. Consider-

ing the abundance of new thinking on classification

of mollusks no printing of this book is more out of

date than the next.

Donated by the Privette family

Lot 49 Seashells of Oman; Bosch 1982

An excellent survey of the seashells from this

difficult to access region

Lot 50 Shells; Dance Eyewitness Handbooks series

An excellent survey of worldwide mollusks

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Lot 51 The Shell, Five Hundred Million Years of Inspired

Design

Stix & Abbot 1988 reprint edition

One of the first “coffee table” shell books.

Lot 52 Shells; Abbott, 1989

Oversized coffee table book from this prolific au-

thor including hundreds of photographs of the ob-

jects dear to our hearts

Donated by the Privette family

Lot 53 Mio-Pliocene Fossils, Calvert Cliffs, Maryland

Nine fully identified species – many represented by

several specimens

Collected in November 2017 by Dora Zimmerman

Donated by Dora Zimmerrnan

Lot 54 Fossil, Anadara ovalis (Bruguiere, 1789) Pleis-

tocene

Nags Head , North Carolina 84mm

Similar to the sub-fossil mollusks found on the

Outer Banks but his one is associated with ma-

trix so can be termed a fossil. Lot 55 Imperial Volute

Cymbiola imperialis (Lightfoot, 1786)

Philippines 138mm

Donated by Everett Long

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Lot 56 Channel Mussel (2 pairs)

Perna canaliculatus (Gmelin, 1791)

New Zealand 2005 110—121mm

Collected and Donated by Doug Wolfe

Lot 57 New Zealand Scallop (2 approx. pairs)

Pecten novaezelandiae Reeve, 1852

New Zealand 2005

Closely matched pairs from a shell dump

97—92mm

Collected and Donated by Doug Wolfe

Lot 58 Chambered Nautilus (natural and polished)

Nautilus pompilius Linnaeus, 1758

Philippines, No data 73 – 65mm

Lot 59 Land Snail, Hochstetter’s Paryphanta

Paryphanta hochstetteri (Pfeiffer, 1862)

South Island, New Zealand 46mm