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According to the acknowledgments in the back of the Pearl book, "I thank, too, Laurent E. Cartier, co-founder of the invaluable Sustainable Pearls project, for his generosity in providing the superb images of Kamoka Pearl Farm, French Polynesia." So I googled Laurent E. Cartier and found this...

I'm about halfway through it. It's a good book. Nice photos, too.

The Dresden Green Diamond is in the Green Vault in Dresden, Germany. The Green Vault also houses the most amazing hoard of natural pearls I've ever seen. I bought this Pearl book in their museum shop. In the chapter on Tahitian pearls there are 4 pages of information and photos about the Kamoka...

I think they look fabulous with your skin tone, and the luster is great.

After seeing pearl farmers and wholesalers keep tons of pearls in buckets and garbage bags and multiple strands tied together in hanks all rubbing against each other, I no longer sweat about pearls in a single strand rubbing together.

Oh, and Dr. Stoltz took us to Corvey, which I had never heard of before. A beautiful palace near Höxter, Germany. It had an amazing library with over 50,000 books. I'm also a bookaholic. Every room had different wallpaper and different wooden floors. One room had pearls on the wall...

I thought the first trip was the trip of a lifetime, but this second trip surpassed it. A big thank you to Dr. Michael Stoltz, who took a week off from his medical practice to chauffeur us around and act as local tour guide. I told him everywhere my Dad wanted to revisit, and he found those...

And this is the Mahnmal (Holocaust Memorial) in Fürstenau, Germany. (There are several places called Fürstenau. Dad's is the one 5 km from Höxter.) The Mahnmal is located infront of the church where they were deported from, and also right across the street from where his house used to stand...

We also went to the Gallery of the Masters, Dresden, Germany. I took photos of portraits with pearls. Not pearls, but this one made me laugh. Tell me you've never seen a woman naked, without telling me you've never seen a woman naked.

More . . . A baby rattle!

More natural pearls from the Green Vault in Dresden, Germany. Also coral, mother of pearl, and nautilus shells.

If you remember back in 2018, I joined my Dad on a trip back to the tiny farming village he was from in Germany. He had been deported to Nazi concentration camps when he was 10, and he was the only family member to survive. He was invited back many times and did not want to go, until 2018. He...

My 3 strand choker I designed back in 1986. PP helped me lengthen it from a high dog collar to a choker length. Dog collar is the actual name for those Edwardian chokers that sat high on the neck. Two pendants from Kojima that I wear on my own earring hoops. Summer Rainbow and Winter...

Sarah had several of those chokers in different colorways, and I love the one that JEG bought.

I usually wear what I'm going to wear, jewelry wise, and wear it for everything, so I'm not bringing extra stuff. I've also used that slightly grippy matting that you put in drawers, laid my jewelry on it, and rolled it up and put it in a shoe sock. I wouldn't store my pearls that way, but it...