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Welcome to Australia's largest dealership of quality Australian and world wide specimen seashells.

 We buy, sell, trade and collect quality natural marine shells, starfish and seashells for decoration and have well over a million shells in our warehouse at any given time.

Take a look at our specimen shells page for collector graded seashell pricelists.

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We are authorised dealers and licensed exporters of Australian seashells.

Export permits for all specimen shells are available.

 

We have been collecting and accumulating shells since 1970, are frequently buying whole shell collections and can offer a huge range of natural marine and land shells, starfish, decorative shells plus a huge range of excellent books.

 

 

 

Cypraea mappa found on shipwreck (rusty) - SOLD

Cypraea arabica found on shipwreck (rusty) - SOLD

 

Our company is known and respected by many of the world's leading dealers and collectors as reliable suppliers of Australian specimen shells. We're annually presenting rare and beautiful shells for sale major shell conventions in the USA (COA) and Europe, incl. Paris, London and Antwerp. See our upcoming event schedule on the information page.

Australian Seashells is located in Perth, Western Australia (30 min. drive from Perth city or airport). Collectors can view shells by appointment - contact us!

Current local time in Perth, Western Australia:

 

 

Callanaitis disjecta Perry, 1811 (Tasmania)

Conus gauguini Richard & Salvat, 1974 (sold)

Angaria tyria Reeve, 1842 Western Australia 2005

 

Who are we? Hugh Morrison has been scuba-diving and collecting shells professionally for over 40 years. He's been dealing with specimen shells for the last 30 years or so. Simone Pfuetzner is a fellow diver and goldsmith - working on design, admin and your order requests.

 

"We aim to give you the same excellent service that we hope to receive when purchasing shells for our own collections. As no image (digital or otherwise) can truly replace your having a close look at a specimen shell yourself, we will always prefer to send you the shell in question directly - with a full money-back-guarantee."

Find out more about refunds & exchange and our money-back-guarantee on the ordering page.

 

 

We display Australia's largest collection of Pectinidae with over 20,000 specimens. We're always interested in acquiring rare and unusual Pectens. Do you have any for sale or trade? 

Go to the information page for more info about shell exchange / trade.

 

Annachlamys iredalei, Powell 1958

ID WANTED!

You are a malacologist or knowledgeable collector and would like to help us identify some very unusual shells? Please visit the Seashell ID Request page for a really difficult puzzle!
 
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