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n.b. The Financial Times article is not new - only new to me and not yet posted here. [LINK]Bahrain restores pearls of its heritage By Digby Lidstone Published: December 21 2009 17:24 | Last updated: December 21 2009 17:24 "These days, pearling is all-but extinct in the Gulf. [...] Yet the...

Same here - some things are so old they are new to most!

Perhaps the next question could be whether pearl sacks and detached pearls of this kind are possible at all. Is there any known to date?

If the story is this good, the dish must be the best thing that ever happened to an octopus!

That's two in the row! (surprises, that is)

Hm... 'guess I need to explain where that odd question came from in the first place. I'd dare suspect that the particular octopus might have some hidden talents because most of his relatives make shells anyway. Yes, it so happens this species does not, but what are the odds some function...

How... how would these animals produce round free-floating concretions? Does the mantle retain shell-making capabilities although O.d. has no shell?

Must be! There is hardly any mention of pearls in all the current literature. Cannot accept that these could have been knowingly ignored.

Would venture a thought: I find it intriguing that the nacre layers of the 'inner pearls' appear concentric - which suggests that those can only be pearls themselves [the image of the one on the left is not clear at all, only the right one]. It would be interesting to hear some educated...

The tax deal sounds better then the pearling pretext, is it not?

Time has past, and now another pearl has got a price put on its story. This time, it sounds fairly straight forward. Hammer to drop on December 6, at Bonham's: Sale 17535 Los Angeles Lot 2377 - Triacna with pearl attached Lot 2376 - a large shell of the same sans pearl Also reported by...

Some research notes are out: GIA Thailand: The microradiographic structures of non bead cultured pearls, by N. Sturman, also at GIA's main web address HERE.

Yish! I've been formally introduced to these charmers by 'The Mystery of the Pearl'. Only at that time the author did not have a way to tell how effective these were at making pearls...

Good to hear. This logic makes keshi / natural split based on the inspection of that inner cavity, a mater of degree? [i.e. as if the idea of looking at pearl structure had simply drifted from the older success at finding nuclei to a new question. Like aspirin.] I wonder if some - most? -...

Is this because the grafts are much larger then the bits of tissue starting pearl growth naturally? Or is there some other distinction between the natural and induced tissue nucleation? [it was a former discussion about keshi that made me wonder about this HERE ]

Ha! Could that be a case of cultured NOT competing with naturals? [which seems only reasonable, after all] The question reminds me about the account by Jeremy Shepherd of the presentation delivered by Paspaley at the former Dubai pearl convention: that Paspaley has maintained an interest in...

Not sure precisely how it went for emeralds, but for sapphire synthetics cut the bottom of the market for a long while - about as long a the price of synthetics remained fairly high and the material preserved some respect. That's long gone. The worst gossip about synthetic emeralds these days...

Definitely another species then Valli's pearls!

Mother of pearl! The story of the crafts involved in the piece can be tracked down on another forum http://www.thecarvingpath.net/. I am only mildly a fan of knives & things as such, but the engraving and inlay and artistic metallurgy are quite an attraction. I wouldn't mind MOP worked like...

A bit of news about making fashion with pearls Remember Thakoon? - the designer with lots of dresser space in the White House, and even more democratic personal style. Hard to avoid one thought: what pearls would fit in there? if that's even the point of the collaboration...