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Congratulation to your Inc.Magazine story. Jeremy Shepherd "created a „luxury for less" campaign and priced his strands of Tahitian pearls, which usually sell for $500 to $700, at $300 each.“ That surely sounds very tempting. Will a lot of these thousands of strings which PP customers are...

This new definition of keshi pearls would in fact be much more honest.

Is the akoya pearl not undergoing about the same chemical treatment as the freshwater pearl? I was under the impression that the quality of the freshwater pearl improved also due to the information the Chinese were able to gather about the Japanese methods and successfully apply those by themselves.

My experience is that freshwater pearls keep their lustre quite well, if you stick to the rules, which are posted in this forum under the thread Pearl Care. But in many years they still may lose a bit of a very high lustre. I asked myself how this is possible with pearls that are a 100% nacre...

(And besides, I have what I consider the best pearl out of China ... and she's sitting here next to me practicing her coins right now. ;) ) There of cause you are right, this pearl of yours is unique and I am happy with you.

I just feel a bit sorry that your worries keep you from buying something as lovely as freshwater pearls of good quality. Even the article you are referring to ends in a consiliatory tone saying: In the end we can add „green“ to the endless palette of lustrous pearls. It is also true that the...

PearlA, I don;t think you should be too worried of pollution caused by the cultivation of freshwater pearls. To successfully grow pearls of good quality it is necessary to watch out that the water is not too polluted. If the farmers wouldn't pay attention they would harm their own interest...

I have not much experience with natural pearls, but I have never seen a necklace of natural pearls, where the pearls are so well matched, so much alike in size, shape and colour like yours. So just as Pattye I would assume that they are cultured pearls.

Dear Olga, thank you for the warm welcome to this forum. In fact it was you who introduced it to me. Than you also for that.

I am a new member, but during the last weeks I have been reading quite a lot in your interesting forum. I have seen here by now quite a number of lovely pictures of Kamoka pearls. Every time I am struck by their lustre and amazing range of colurs. At first I thought this was due to a specially...