Spondylus echinatus

A huge Murex ramosus, seldom seen like this one!

Extra size and quality, selected from a famous collection of the 70's.

Vertical branch black Gorgonian in a natural wood base, these medium sizes Gorgonia have a special shape and are taken by divers from Manado, North Sulawezi - Indonesia. 

A glass dome with a Pocillopora eydouxi coral from Solomon Islands, 4 Hippocampus from Mediterranean Sea, two sea stars from Philippines, and a cymathium mundumm from Madagascar.

All painted in gold, making a very decorative and distinctive piece.

Four Spondylus imperialis in a black wood glass frame.

Beautiful specimen collected by divers in 20 m deep of Jetafe, Bohol Isl. - Philippines

This Elisella specimen in a red flame form is a rare species of gorgonian from Leptogorgia family, found in the coast of Broome, Northwestern Australia. 

Gorgons, like corals, are animals living in the form of sessile colonial polyps, organized in a tree structure. The general structure, a skeleton both flexible and hard, called gorgonin does not grow towards the sun - it does not require light to develop -, but perpendicular to the current, to filter a maximum of water flow.

These are beautiful colored specimens! 

A curious and very asthetical piece, dyplayed in a small glass dome. Probably the Spondylus grew attached to the back of the Murex shell, From Philippines

A spectacular Spondylus variegatus attached in a Malleus malleus shell from Davao - Philippines, in a black lacquered wood pedestal.

This is a uncommon attachment that came out by divers from time to time.

The two shells live in perfect symbiosis. 

Megabalanus tintinnabulum, from Philippines, in a green high gloss wood base.

Megabalanus colonies can reach big size groups, they live attached to rocks and dead coral in watched areas, sometimes attached in boats.

That is the reason why this species can be found in all Indo-Pacific but also in some areas of South Atlantic. Due to the incredible forms and colors they make excellent bizarre decor items.

A great Charonia variegata from Brazil, big size, perfect pattern, seldom seen like this.

Displayed in a natural brown wood base.

A Horned Helmet shell - Cassis cornuta, from Philippines, in a black lacquered wood base.

A beautiful decor shell. 

Glass dome with five Pleurotomaria hirasei.

This deep water shell was a huge rarity 20 years ago and much sought after by collectors!

Recently have been found in big quantities in South China Sea. A classic and a beautiful shell!

Megabalanus tintinnabulum, from Philippines, in a black lacquered wood base.

Megabalanus colonies can reach big size groups, they live attached to rocks and dead coral in watched areas, sometimes attached in boats.

That is the reason why this species can be found in all Indo-Pacific but also in some areas of South Atlantic. Due to the incredible forms and colors they make excellent bizarre decor items.

Terebra maculata, know as "Marlinspike auger", mounted in an acrylic base.

A beautiful decor piece from Philippines.

Cypraea aurantium a classic and iconic shells, very much sough after in the XVII to the middle of the XX century, fetched very high prices, in the 70" was discovered in big numbers in Philippines, still a very desirable collector item for is beauty is now very affordable.

A opportunity to get a beautiful pair from Mactan Isl. - Philippines. Mounted in white lacquered wood bases.

A big size perfect Festilyria festiva from Somalia.

A classic rarity, very hard to get in this size and condition, for the serious collector or for decor beautiful shell.

A great decor item, displaying 18 white specimens of coral, shells, urchins and other exotic marine animals in a big glass dome.

Supplied with full data of all specimen.

A One of a Kind piece!