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Bloomberg News (post-sale) Sotheby's had quite a lengthy release before the auction. Links on an older thread HERE. Aside their news bites, newspapers reported a correction of the estimate - for what that sort of claim is worth. PS: NYT, May 5, 1917 (!) - see the bottom half of the last...

Doesn't take all that to get my envy! ;) You are talking of discovery! - freaking' great feeling and hard to share - even if the results and the background generally can...

Eh.... 'just glad to be getting the news of such process of discovery. Ready to bet that GIA's newly acquired capability for species ID should produce some more public news of such things. At least, I hope they will pursue the institution's past practice in this respect. Surely, exotic pearls...

Yes. Just needed a name for the respective optical effect... And I do believe there is a connection of some sort - nothing poetic, having to do with the material and how reflected light is 'read' by a viewer. I do not claim the relation is exclusive or that it goes both ways (perhaps not the...

Not sure about you, but I need a summary of this thread by now. Much as I get it, the argument runs like this: - some non-nacreous pearls have flame patterns (property varying with the species' nacre deposition mechanism, and the shape of the pearl - at least) - some nautilus pearls...

Sacred Conch! :( no foolish thing left undone...

#1. Isn't that right! :) The 'other literatures' I was thinking of when writing the previous post were in the natural sciences and materials science. That shell material (trying for a neutral term here) may be called by several different words in different languages hadn't crossed my mind! I...

The hammer has struck In retrospect, past wild evaluations sound rather funny. Each with its purpose, I suppose...

I'd even go a step further... In different literatures then relating to pearls-as-jewelry, 'nacre' describes 'shell material' in general. I would expect this usage to spill over in a more academic approach to pearls too. Nautilus - with its particular archaic 'nacre' structure, is a perfect...

Clear enough: I was falling for an easy mistake - taking any slightly interesting feature as potential ID feature! Could be that the owner of those pearls fell for the same. SSEF reports likely state that the pearls are natural, not necesarily of a certain species. At least, I would hope so...

Please do! Perhaps she might even care to post a piece or two down here?

Care for an odd question? Does anyone know whether gold foil adheres to pearls? [don't care for the slime, but creative gilding is another matter!]

The difference is market share and exposure to legislator's wrath, at least... I'm not too aware of what exempts Paspaley or the new black pearl venture? (DeBeers did get pinched, pleaded guilty upon loosing market share to history, with some long story hence). The difference between the...

Silly question here: three of the round whites appear to have that 'ring of fire' reflection made possible by the singular structure of the sure-fire nautilus pearls posted here too. And nautilus are harvested en masse (i.e. where's smoke, chances are...). Sure enough, I've never seen one in...

Joining the camp, Nerida.

Not sure I see the ethical difference... between public taxes and private price-setting. Both as good or bad as the hand they're in. Is there any reincarnation of the nacre-thickness gauge in question? 'Guess the new arrangements are too new to have had time for that. (and I am still unsure...

Doesn't look like the new GIE will be fiddling around with a common pot for beauty pageants, does it...

... and somewhere in the video there's also a statement to the effect that <<natural pearls are the future of the auctions in Dubai>>. Isn't that right! If you aren't sick and tired of the sort, try the next at Skinner's.

That's enormous! Lab report?

How's that for a good start! Especially now that the brad & butter applied labour micro seems to be holding the headlines on your side of the pond... I am just old enough to remember what a similar wave of reforms did to the field in Europe, if you will catch a similar period throughout your...