Festilyria Festiva - Rare Volute SPECIMEN SHELL FROM Oman
Item History & Price
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Description:Rare Volute SPECIMEN SHELL FROM Oman: Festilyria festiva The Sultan of Oman bans the export of shells from hiscountry. Dr. Donald Bosch had a specialrelationship with the Sultan and was allowed to export Oman shells to worldwidecollectors. Many of those shells were virtually unknown to the Western worldbefore the Bosch family brought them out of Oman. This is one of those shells.With the passing of the Donald the chance of new spec...imens making it into theinternational market is slim. Specimens are increasingly difficult to obtainand must come out of existing collections. No reports of new specimens havebeen recorded being found in recent years by people living within Oman furtherreducing the chance of adding an example to one’s collection. This is anendemic specimen from such a collection. The size is 7.7 cm. It is a beached shell with some "beach scares" but is a good, colorful representative shell for a collection. According to Rice's Catalog fresh specimens go for $200 to $300. Good beach specimens are $30 to $60.The Condition is listed as used because obviously the mollusc animal used it first. If you have any questions or need more pictures - please email me.
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