A perfect gift I reckon - I won this on the usual auction site a couple of weeks ago and was allowed to unwrap it today.
It's a 22", 3.3lb Megateuthis suevica (formerly gigantea). (They do get longer, supposedly well over 30", even a yard. One day...)
It's now probably the star attraction of my belemnite collection (roughly a thousand specimens).
I have collected the same species in the UK but I've not heard of any reaching this sort of size here, about 14" being the maximum I know of. My longest Yorkshire coast one, 10", is shown in photo 3.
Middle Jurassic, Bajocian, reportedly from the Subfurcatum Zone (they're usually Humphriesianum, the zone below), temporary roadworks near Osnabrück, N. Germany, 1985.
With 10" Yorkshire, UK specimen from the Scarborough Formation.