Found on eBAY: NOT a maireener, NOT Tasmanian, NOT made by a Tasmanian Aboriginal maker.

Apparently someone told the seller here that one the same that sold for over £100. If that was so then maybe it would have been good to quote the eBAY item number. The good thing about eBAY is that it is a very good research tool.

Necklaces made with Tasmanian maireener shells do quite often sell for over £100 and contemporary maireener shell necklaces made by Aboriginal makers sell for well over £100.

So you have to wonder if the one that apparently sold for over £100 was the same as this one. Without the evidence it is impossible to say. But clearly such necklace's 'Aboriginality' does seem to add value to them.

Anyway the buyers are able to do their research and this one didn't attract a bid let alone reach the seller's reserve.