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The 2019 BSCC Shell Show

Held on 26 October 2019 at Theydon Bois Village Hall. Despite the dank weather there was a healthy turnout for this year's Show from members, dealers and visitors – some had come a very long way to join us and it was good to see them all. We are grateful to the brilliant catering team for fuelling the whole day. Our thanks also go to this year's competition judges, Alan Seccombe, Daphne Howlett and Rika De Donder, and our congratulations to the prize winners listed below. As ever, we can always fit in more competition entries – see here for tips on exhibiting at next year's Shell Show.
Show results
For more information on the prizes awarded at the Show, see Tom Walker's article here.

One species

1st

–

2nd

Kevin Brown: “Senilia senilis”

3rd

 

Lise Landmark: “Astraea calcar with coral”

 

One genus or family

1st

Tom Walker: “Genus Polymita” – winner of the Peter Oliver Cup

 

2nd

Dave Rolfe: “Family Fissurellidae [keyhole limpets]”

 

British – marine, freshwater or land

 

 

No entries

Foreign – marine, freshwater or land

 

 

No entries

Self-made shell art

 

1st

–

 

2nd

Lise Landmark: Framed shell specimens

 

Fossils

 

 

No entries

Shell photography (judged by member ballot)

1st

Peter Topley: “A group of Tritia reticulata about to scavenge on a recently dead sea potato”

 

2nd

Peter Topley: “Close-up of the head of an Arion slug”

 

3rd

Ann Storey: “Y Viva España [mating Arion vulgaris slugs]”

 

Shellomania

 

1st

John Llewellyn-Jones: “Mother-of-pearl artifacts from around the world” – winner of the Conchologists of America Award

 

Junior – age 12 to 16 inclusive

 

 

No entries

Junior – age 11 and under

 

 

No entries

Special category – five favourite shells

1st

Ann Storey: “A handful of cowries”

 

2nd

Kevin Brown: “Memories”

 

3rd

Lise Landmark: “Five favourite shells”

 

Shell of the Show

 

Ann Storey: Cypraea tigris Linnaeus, 1758 ‘hurricane pattern’ – winner of the Walter Karo Trophy

 

Photo gallery
Many thanks to David Feld, Chris Vos and Ali Hartley for the photographs.
More photographs on the BSCC Facebook page.

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