SHELL COLLECTION

BENITO'S SEASHELL COLLECTION

Below are some photographs taken from my mum's home at the time she was a keen shell collector and certain days at very low tides I would have to dive and break globulous coral finding the rare cowries.

Unfortunately my cowrie collection is not included below as they are being exhibited in Switzerland and on return I will add them for general viewing where I will explain more about those precious shells.

I will in time also include names of various shells with a few interesting short stories of my mother's and my experience in shell collecting just like collecting stamps which I also enjoyed and have a fairly good collection now handed over to one of my grandchildren interested in stamp collecting.

If anyone has any questions regarding shell collecting, please feel free to contact me and I will assist where I can.

On our island of Zanzibar we were very fortunate to be surrounded by coral reefs across the whole islands where at places where the tides went down, one could walk in the shallow waters and find various shells often some of the rare  cowries.

SHELL COLLECTION