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These would do a poppy proud! I can't remember seeing such pearls in any new jewelry work [wrong continent? - even among historic records there are more styles using such pearls in imported jewelry then European, I believe...] - only somewhat larger ones. I hope these get some interesting fate.

Hollow pearls by design described by Gary Roskin along with a theory of how they came to be: http://www.roskingemnews.com/Master_Page/Pearls.aspx French pastry & all, the story reminds me of other hollows - those called here and nowhere else, 'gas pearls'... Perhaps Roskin & all were...

The link below goes to a presentation by a historian with the Metropolitan NY. about the circumstances of a portrait and incidentally, of a rather nice collection of pearls shown with the sitter. Eleanora de Toledo's wedding gift ... the story of securing a significant pearl collection in...

Sounds like these guys have got quite some party going! I never looked into the pearl color thing too seriously, but akoya have been written of to death [about color selection, see page 27 and 36 HERE]. However, it was something else about these colors [the blue/gray to pinkish white, to...

The link at Wiley Inter-science is empty [always happens with these - can't save their links... ] so... I need to ask: what do golden akoya have to do with those other two kinds? PS: just read this and stumbled on that strove! Darn! Ha, ha! It's been quite the task to boil a mound of...

Something reminded me of this debatable object you have been offered: a strand of large round MOP beads, each bead assembled of two precisely polished halves with 'swirls' reminding of the middle of a transversal section through a larger snail shell. Beaders, you do know what I am talking...

On a second thought: that woman must have known pearls enough - wonder if she may have kept hers as a keepsake from the prank [nevermind which way, Douglas!]. Her foolish man bequeathed his to his gods - can't imagine how large the resulting scandal was to begin with, to have rippled to this...

'Guess the thief had better taste then their usual customers. Small world!

Look at this: http://www.gaaj-zenhokyo.com/internal-structure-pearls-0

Good luck, I say, to whoever wants to hunt for keshi inside cultured pearls. If these are the false negatives, I'll burn them for you... LOL! [never-mind my manners for a few hours; just this once...] Douglas, keep them coming.

Speaking of which, what of P. radiata? Anyone? [Ref. AMNH counts modern sources] On that list, there are at least two stories of a species tolerated like weeds and picked at like the wild banks of old, subsidized by farming something else nearby. It may not be true romance that natural...

With a taste for teasing. The report starts by saying that the pearls looked like not so great beaded pearls of the bag, and suspiciously nucleated upon candling. If I were a crook, I'd be back to the drawing board by now. Now, I suspect it really is not possible to avoid a discontinuity...

Wasn't there some sense that beadless freshwater pearls can / should / ought to be called 'keshi' too? That should help put the stuff into perspective. Wish I knew about these for a grammar class! [of the old kind, rife with syntactic analysis - sometime I wonder if auctioneers are the last...

I remember the video. I find two details intriguing: #1. there are no traces of 'attack' on the out side of the shell [it is said out loud] but some are found inside? [the spot does not appear clearly in the video]. If so, it must have been some event that did not disturb the growth of the...

Well, how are the freshwater ones done... It isn't much of a mystery. The task to identify the traces of the human intervention in the pearl is something else. Obviously, there was no point in doing this for freshwater tissue nucleated pearls. As I understand, their nucleation was sperfected...