Shellfish Collection

Bali seashell gleaner, Kuta
Bali seashell gleaner. Silhouette of woman with head scarf bending over to gather shells in the shallow seawater near Kuta Date: 1989

Christmas card in the shape of a lobster. Date: circa 1890s

Shelling Mussels / 1906
Shelling mussels, Cromasty, Scotland Date: 1906

Clam Diggers sorting and grading their pickings, Boston, USA
Clam Diggers sorting and grading their pickings - Boston, Massachusetts, USA Date: circa 1910s

Gathering shellfish, Whitby, Victorian period

Pretty young lady making a splash with a dive into the sea
I'm making a big splash down here'! A pretty young lady in a vivid red swimsuit and headscarf leaps into the sea, sending some of the other occupants of the waters flying into the air!

Shellfish
A Japanese brush drawing of a large shrimp. Date: circa 1920

Comic postcard, Couple having picnic on the beach Date: 20th century

The Aquarium, Brighton, East Sussex - inset illustration bordered by shrimp. Date: circa 1906

Comic postcard, Man with line of fish he didn t catch Date: 20th century

Street Life London 1878 - seller of shellfish
John Thomson Street Life London 1878 - seller of shellfish

Picking shellfish off the bottom of the sea, Japan, late 19th century

c. 1880s Japan - picking shellfish on the shore
c.1880s Japan - picking shellfish on the shore

Extinct sea crocodile, Teleosaurus genus, Jurassic period. Illustration by Hugo Wolff-Maage from Wilhelm Bolsches Das Leben der Urwelt, Prehistoric Life, Georg Dollheimer, Leipzig, 1932

Extinct Plesiosaurs and Ichthyosaur
Reconstruction of extinct Plesiosaurus marine dinosaurs in the South German Sea, Jurassic era. in the background right, an Ichthyosaurus

Little Women - a lobster for a special lunch
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - a lobster for a special lunch. 1880

Lobster in a rock pool - blue and purple in its natural habitat, but bright red when cooked. Date: circa 1950s

Whalers hunting a bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus. Above and below the vignette are examples of the whales diet of shellfish, plankton and shrimp

Whalers hunting a whale
Whalers hunting a North Atlantic right whale, Eubalaena glacialis, endangered 1, and barnacles 2-5. Baleine, Balenes.Handcoloured steel engraving by Pfitzer from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles

Tiger cowrie, wrinkled cowrie, money cowrie, etc
Tiger cowrie, Cypraea tigris 1, wrinkled cowrie, Nucleolaria nucleus 2, money cowrie, Monetaria moneta 3, and Ellatrivia merces 4, Porcelaines

Bushels of oyster shells at Hampton, Virginia, USA
200, 000 bushels of oyster shells piled up at Hampton, Virginia, USA. Date: circa 1915

Crab with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Scrap - decoupage design - Lobster. 1865

SHELLFISH PLATTER
Buisson de coquillages - a magnificently presented shellfish platter. Date: late 19th century

The Moon depicted on a Tarot card
The Moon, as depicted on a Tarot card. Date: 1926

Shellfish stall at fair, London
East-End selling shellfish on a stall. Date: Early 20th century

Fisherman unloads buckies whelks at Port William, Galloway, Scotland

Man on gate outside seafood processing factory shovels ice
A man sits on a gate outside a seafood processing factory and shovels ice into a red skip. The ice is used during the processing of scallops in Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland

Shrimp fisherman, Flookborough, Morecambe Bay - 8
Freshly cooked, freshly caught Morecambe Bay brown shrimps, Bob Dickinson, shrimp fisherman, Flookborough, Cumbria Date: 1993

Shrimp fisherman, Flookborough, Morecambe Bay - 6
Flookborough shrimp fisherman Bob Dickinson uses a hand net to catch shrimps at low tide in Morecambe Bay, Cumbria Date: 1993

Shrimp fisherman, Flookborough, Morecambe Bay - 7
A handful of freshly cooked, freshly caught Morecambe Bay brown shrimps, Bob Dickinson, shrimp fisherman, Flookborough, Cumbria Date: 1993

Shrimp fisherman, Flookborough, Morecambe Bay - 3
Flookborough shrimp fisherman Bob Dickinson riddles sand from freshly caught cockles he has just dug from the sand in Morecambe Bay, Cumbria Date: 1993

Shrimp fisherman, Flookborough, Morecambe Bay - 5
Venomous weaver fish in Flookborough shrimp fisherman Bob Dickinsons shrimp net, Morecambe Bay, Cumbria Date: 1993

Shrimp fisherman, Flookborough, Morecambe Bay - 4
Flookborough shrimp fisherman Bob Dickinson riddles sand from freshly caught cockles he has just dug from the sand in Morecambe Bay, Cumbria Date: 1993

Shrimp fisherman, Flookborough, Morecambe Bay - 2
Flookborough shrimp Fisherman Bob Dickinson rides his tractor into the low tide of Morecambe Bay to catch shrimps off Flookborough, Cumbria Date: 1993

Shrimp fisherman, Flookborough, Morecambe Bay -1
Flookborough shrimp Fisherman Bob Dickinson rides his tractor into the low tide of Morecambe Bay to catch shrimps off Flookborough, Cumbria Date: 1993

Atelettes -- food on decorative skewers, including shellfish, vegetables, crystallised fruit, truffles and jelly. circa 1890

Still Life with a Gilt Cup, 1635, by Willem Claesz Heda (159
Willem Claesz Heda (1594-1680). Dutch painter. Still Life with a Gilt Cup, 1635. Detail. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Kitagawa Utamaro print - Watching Divers for Shellfish
Reproduction of a woodcut by Kitagawa Utamaro (1750-1806) entitled: Watching Divers for Shellfish. Date: circa late 18th century

Fruits de Mer at Rick Steins restaurant, Padstow, Cornwall
Fruits de Mer at Rick Steins seafood restaurant, Padstow, Cornwall. circa 1980s

Christmas card in the shape of a shrimp
Handmade Christmas card in the shape of a shrimp, which comes out of its shell to reveal a seasonal greeting. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Banquet Still Life, 1644, by Adriaen van Utrecht (1599-1651 /
Adriaen van Utrecht (1599-1651/52). Flemish painter. Banquet Still Life, 1644. Detail. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Cave dwellers, Downderry, near Seaton, Cornwall. These folk were mostly Irish people who came from Plymouth and lived in the caves on the beach from March to September harvesting shellfish

Russian Desman - adult female, feeds on a fresh-water mussel, typical posture (Desmana moschata). Okskii Biospheric Nature Reserve, river Oka valley, Central Russia

Oyster from Margate on a shell-shaped greetings card
Oyster from Merry Margate (Kent) on a shell-shaped greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Shellfish farming on Jersey, Channel Islands. Date: circa 1970s

Woman selling cockles in Scotland, c. 1830
Woman selling cockles in Scotland to two boys, c.1830 Date: C.1830

Winkle seller, 1869
Man selling fine fresh winkles from a cart, 1869 Date: 1869

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