Title: A living sea creatures decorative cast metal silver seashell
Shipping: $29.00
Artist: N/A
Period: 20th Century
History: N/A
Origin: North America > United States
Condition: Excellent
Item Date: 1930 to 1970
Item ID: 3451
A lovely, decorative metal silver seashell for the home. Just stop and look at this gorges antique silver cast shell. This was made from the living sea creatures shell, there is no monogram. A wonderful cast silver Shell design with a gold wash on the inside. Seashells have been admired, studied and used by humans for many different purposes throughout history and pre-history.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seashell
A seashell, also known as a sea shell, or simply as a shell, is the common name for a hard, protective outer layer, a shell, or in some cases a "test", that was created by a sea creature, a marine organism. The shell is part of the body of a marine animal. In most cases a shell is an exoskeleton, usually that of an animal without a backbone, an invertebrate. Seashells are most often found on beaches.
The word seashell is most often used to mean the shells of marine mollusks, i.e. mollusk shells. It can however also be used to mean the shells of a wide variety of other marine animals from various different marine invertebrates.
As well as marine mollusks, many other kinds of sea animals have exoskeletons or even internal shells which sometimes, after death, wash up on the beach and may be picked up by beachcombers. These shells include remains from species in other invertebrate phyla, such as the moulted shells or exuviae of crabs and lobsters, the shells of barnacles, horseshoe crab shells, the tests (endoskeletons) of sea urchins, sand dollars and seastars, brachiopod shells, and the shells of marine annelid worms in the family Serpulidae, which create calcareous tubes cemented onto other surfaces.