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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 3226017, member: 5833&quot;]Without having seen what you saw in your researches, I would guess that some of the Asian ones were carved abalone, but the ones with a shape like yours are oyster.&nbsp; Yours has the engraving on the side of the shell that was toward the outside when the animal was alive.&nbsp; On the other side you can see part of the hinge at the apex &amp; the &#039;scar&#039; on the surface where the muscle that pulled the shell closed was attached.&nbsp; Abalone are really perverse snails, with a univalve shell.&nbsp; I would like to know the process by which these shells become flattened.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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