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Nice inheritance!

Creativity just pops up everywhere...especially when pants are involved...or not!

I agree! Dyed freshwater pearls, with cracked areas near the drill hole. Not good looking!

I agree: Baroque Akoyas, and a good wash will make them look much better!

This caught my eye after some time...had to ask AI: Yes, Douglas—“micron gold plating” is still gold plating. A micron is simply a unit of thickness: 1 µm = 0.001 mm. It doesn’t mean a coating thinner than ordinary plating; a 3-micron coating is six times thicker than a 0.5-micron coating...

I now believe they were just imaginary...

Great buy!

No harm done! Lots of love for Helen & her pearls!

Great document Peter @pebal ! Loved reading it all

Pinked Akoya Pearls

Me too!

I love carved pearls...I NEED one!

Happy to see you back with us!

Hey! Here is a trick we used to do at the Cortez pearl farm: get your hands on a very thick cyanoacrylate glue, but you need to have one of those long dispensers, thus you will be able to get it inside the pearl. Then squeeze and fill as much as you can with the glue. Let the pearl rest in an...

Those are nice. They look like some of the "old" Cortez pearls we produced back in the early 2000's...I see what I think is mottling (or "hammering" as I prefer to call this optical effect). Back in those days we had lots of "gas giant pearls" with some of the same surface defects and coloration...