Antique engraving of colourful sea urchins in rows of pink, yellow, lavender and green, with a split urchin in the centre and two sand dollars below.

A single brown sand dollar with a five-pointed star on its face, from an antique engraving. — Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

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Sea Urchins and Sand Dollars

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Rows of sea urchins in soft pinks, yellows, lavenders and greens surround two star-marked sand dollars on this plate from Albertus Seba's Thesaurus of Natural Curiosities of 1758. Seba, an Amsterdam apothecary, had his great cabinet of shells and sea creatures drawn and engraved, and an old legend says the sand dollar tells the Easter story. For anyone who loves the shore.

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From the great natural-history books of the 1700s to the 1900s / Sea Urchins and Sand Dollars / Echinoidea / In an old Christian legend the sand dollar tells the Easter story, with a star or a lily on its face and, inside, five little 'doves' that are really the pieces of its jaw. / Thesaurus of Natural Curiosities, vol. 3, 1758 / Albertus Seba, an Amsterdam apothecary, had his great cabinet of shells and sea creatures drawn and engraved.

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