Pearl Guide

It's been long enough that it can be easy to forget that brightly colored soufflé and metallic pearls were once a rarity.

Those wild colors and mirror shine come from this hybrid mussel.


Souffle' pearls on the half-shell

And their cousins...


Brightly colored metallics

Enjoy!

Blaire Beavers
Managing Editor
Pearl Guide News

Is eBay Fraud and Misrepresentation Eroding the Reputation and Value of Saltwater Pearls

China has a lot of freshwater cultured pearls that need to be sold and eBay is a great venue for sellers to display their wares. Unfortunately, over time, many sellers have gravitated to using unscrupulous tactics in an effort to compete with each other.

eBay users believe that they are buying real Tahitian, Akoya and South Sea pearls. This hurts honest sellers and devalues the real saltwater pearls...

EAST PROVIDENCE, RI – The Cultured Pearl Association of America Inc. has held its governing board elections.
The elections took place during the 2017 JCK Las Vegas. Outgoing President Peter Bazar of Imperial has held two two-year terms.
The newly elected board members are:


Elected president: Aziz Basalely, Eliko Pearl, New York.
Elected vice president: Anil Maloo, Baggins Inc., California.
Elected treasurer: Jeremy Shepherd, Pearl Paradise, California.
Elected secretary: Richard Blake...

Late last year Jeremy Shepherd of Pearl Paradise held a drawing to send a lucky person to Bali, Indonesia to visit a pearl farm. The winner had to be a member of Pearl-Guide and to have completed the Pearls as One on-line course. Atlas Pearls and Perfumes sponsored the winner for five days in Bali.

I was the lucky winner of the drawing. I am Pearl-Guide member Red. I decided to take along my husband Dan as my travelling companion. We recently completed our trip to Bali and the visit to...

Our dear forum leader Caitlin Williams passed away last week. She loved Pearl-Guide, our members, and especially enjoyed attending the annual Pearl Guide Ruckus - a kind of sleepover party for pearl lovers.

Caitlin was incredibly special. Smart, funny, irreverent, talented and best of all, loveable. Here are some photos of Caitlin from Ruckuses past.


(This photo was from the last ruckus in 2016)

The first Ruckus, or "International Consequential Pearl Guide Convention", ICPGC, was held...

Many of our members collect pearls, but only a few collect natural pearls. Member Metzler is one whose flawless taste and intellectual curiosity turns super-rare natural pearls into exquisite jewels.

Here is a brooch of natural golden "pipi" pearls from the Pinctada maculata and abalone pearls from the Haliotis iris.



Enjoy!

Blaire Beavers
Managing Editor
Pearl Guide News