A conch shell, a cut and partly-peeled lemon on a silver platter, a broken pomegranate, shrimps, oysters, a wine-filled roemer, fruit and other objects on a partly-draped wooden table before a draped ...

A large conch shell overlooked in a museum for decades is now thought to be the oldest known seashell instrument — and it still works, producing a deep, plaintive bleat, like a foghorn from the ...