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If it isn't done with right now already, and anyone would bother, that should be easier then making those pearls, wouldn't it... Would bet we could find a few convinced that these things are 'too rare' as is. Perhaps the 10k/ct refers to pearls large enough to predate any of this story. Those...

Your guess should be allot better then mine! I am tempted to remain skeptical at this point. With demand for these being what it is, I cannot imagine what would such an operation feed on: either waiting a few decades hoping for a blockbuster or dropping a large doze of tiny 'news' in a small...

Around the time when I joined the forum [years! Ha! when did it pass?...] I had found a report of successful conch pearl culture at some aquaculture research facility in Indonesia. The exercise had no commercial following reported. Any idea if things went any further? [I am trying to find out...

... along with a white pearl version built in the same spirit (i.e. the overall shape and the neat trick of layering panels to accommodate the depth of the pearls) that made it into the 'Bejeweled by Tiffany' exhibition recently! LINK to pictures I don't think there ever was a book of...

The imaging should turn in some news! What is the group looking for at this point? My question comes mostly from the current description of keshi pearl formation. It seems that whatever evidence there is about this may not be regarded as sufficient for a headline on natural pearl...

Does he also agree that such a specimen is (very nearly) physiologically impossible?

True enough. Competition is competition...

Congratulations for looking so cool in pearls and showing it! I'm a cowarrrrrd!!!!

Hm... altered nacre layers in the thickened abalone shell, right? Where the little colored marvels you guys are working with form! :cool: Are you implying that there is an entire stash of images like this somewhere !? ;) I have been keeping up a note to self to figure out how much is known...

How fun! If I wore necklaces I'd do a double rope and call it a day. But I do not, so... I'd cross it twice (like this), or lend it to a certain small metal bag (this kind, I can't see the exact model, but you get the drift) to hang from or else loop the thing a few times to get a longer twisted...

Too late... ;) Thank you for the frank explanation. I hadn't realized... It seems natural to point out references when talking of some absent third party's art work (quite a bit of gallery talk is just that, LOL!) and took that Israeli ring for granted as fair game w/o thinking thrice. If this...

The proportions suggested by your client do not seem terribly close to either the props in the movie or a bona fide historic reconstruction. Quite the luck that you should end up with such a design problem! The skinny buggers could be gonad-formed non-nucleated pearls... Indeed, the prop...

It is a big subject for a 'chime'... I have no idea what is or isn't in the much awaited Scarratt paper. However, have some reason to believe that Nautilus pearls should have some very distinctive characteristics even if nacre structure is not an ID characteristic for most other species of...

It would help seeing the kind of damage up close [a picture like THIS would be absolutely great].

Not sure about the respective species, but I thought some do [Pina] so it could be possible to others. I have not looked into this seriously, but there seems to be an interesting (if impractical) question there: if shells take several types of nacre to form, can all types of specialized tissue...

I hear you (only just now). It seems too late to take the post off, now that it has got a comment or two, but the disturbing picture just got hidden under a link. Hopefully a whole lot milder reminder that disturbing design doesn't mingle well... [Yes, I had also recognized the similarities...

Might be old fashion, but also love at first sight! [most shell things are]. I am familiar with the chank bracelets, and pierced shell bangles [the styles seem to keep coming back from the oldest jewelry...] but those are typically closed, not an open spiral... Would guess that the shape and...

I believe these are all natural pearls and the workshop only works with natural pearls. The pieces seem obsessively thought-out and finished! [I would be curious what a jade carver has to say about the carving - particularly the plaques... And how the selection of round pearls matched to a...

Caitlin, do you know what kind of shell are these made of and how?

Hand washing... haven't thought of that 'exotic' source of exposure (!) despite taking a while to come up with the list above. I was indoctrinated early on into taking rings off [the one mentioned excepted]. Is it common practice not to?