Found On The Internet – NOT Tasmanian or Tasmaniana

Yet again the AUTHENTICITY issue arises and NO the shells are:

• NOT maireener, Rainbow Kelp, Phasianotrochus irisodontes, shells;
• NOT from Tasmanian waters – and this necklace has almost certainly been dyed;
• NOT used by Aboriginal necklace makers in Tasmania – BUT there are some that are almost like these BUT NOT maireener shells;
• possibly the kind of shells F C Martin, son of M M Martin – non-Aboriginal Tasmanian colonial makers 1875 to 1930s? – might have been trading in as a part of the Martin's Honolulu enterprise;
  

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