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

 We buy, sell, trade and collect quality natural seashells, starfish and related books - 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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Our company is known for and respected by dealers and collectors alike as reliable suppliers of Australian specimen shells and seashell books.

We also offer decorative seashells, starfish / sea urchins / sand dollars for interior design, decoration & crafts - DECOSHELLS.

We frequently buy entire shell collections and regularly travel to annual major worldwide shell conventions (USA 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 may view our shells by appointment - contact us!
 

FEATURED BOOK:

Abalone - Worldwide Haliotidae

by Geiger & Owen, 2012 ISBN: 978-3-939767-43-5, hardcover 1.9kg AUD 145.00

NEW: A brand new fabulous guidebook to the beautiful Abalone family (Haliotidae), aka Ormers. Presenting a comprehensive overview of these highly collectable and decorative shells is difficult, as many species are highly variable. The authors have succeeded in illustrating and describing all known worldwide species to date with excellent quality images on 90 full colour plates. Included are detailed images of all known hybrid examples as well as many rare colour forms - ideal for ID work....(read more)

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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 DECOSHELLS, your order requests - and everything else...

 

"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 (Scallop Shells) 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!

Are you a knowledgeable collector or malacologist and would like to help us identify some very unusual shells? Please visit the Seashell ID Request page for some real puzzles!
 
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