I may have posted some of these and you may have already seen them, but I just came across them again while perusing my hard drive. (shoevelgrrrl might take that the wrong way) 😉 heheh...
The story I got was that these things washed ashore after that Tsunami that wiped out Phuket (I think.)
Anyway, I put them up on my web site. Take a look:
http://bennie-smith.net/cpm/thumbnails.php?album=29&page=1 