From Hobbies Weekly, 1950.

All manner of things shell bell well.  From The First Book of Illustrated Words and Sentences by Moran and Brelsford, 1901.

From True Fairy Stories by Mary E. Bakewell, 1902.

"Clams and mussels in their shell clothes."  From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 1900.

From Wee Wisdom, 1934.

From The Creepie-Stool, an unusual "single-poet anthology for chidlren" by Elizabeth Fleming and illustrated by Hugh Chesterman, peppered with Scots words like "stravaiging."

From the United States Naval Academy's 1909 yearbook.

From Amrita, 1973.

From The Teaching of Drawing by I. H. Morris, 1893.

From The Sandman: His Ship Stories by William J. Hopkns and illustrated by Diantha W. Horne, 1907.

From Around a Toadstool Table by Rowena Bennett, 1930.

A dwarf who makes music upon a sea-shell.  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1887.

From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.

"The tulip that walked."  From Together, 1970.

Reblog if a fish has gifted you a shell.  From The Mystic Bell by Edward Kuntze, 1869.

From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.

You know that one can hear the ocean in a seashell, but did you know that it's the shore at Atlantic City?  From 1907.