Help Identify Vintage Sea Shell Collection--Collectors MUST SEE!!!!

[paul monfils]

As Dave said, the shells are all very common species, most of them apparently collected in Florida.  They all appear to be beach-collected (serious collectors want live-collected specimens that have not been rolled around in the surf and bleached by the sun). So, they have little if any commercial value.  With one exception.  The shell in the first picture that has writing on it.  I am assuming the writing is the The Lord's Prayer.  These etched cowries were popular many years back, not particularly among shell collectors, but just among Christian folks in general.  It is possible that this might bring a few dollars on Ebay either as a religious item or as an antique.