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If you are a wholesaler most companies you supply will require you carry product liability insurance. It's pretty common. Because pearls are obviously the perfect size to get stuck in your nose.

Yeah, I don't know but you might get a kick out of this. The place you can get pearl liability insurance is called PEARL INSURANCE Co. http://pearlinsurance.com/ The guy in the pic looks just like me too. If you squint and cock your head just right......and are drunk. ;)

If your insurer doesn't cover your products here you could buy liability insurance here. General aggregate of $2,000,000 and $1M products, $1M Each occurance, $1M Personal injury runs you $666.00. A devil of a price. I know because I just checked.

In fact here is what a shell button factory looks like

Problem there is everything comes from China. I realized that in my last couple of trips to Guangzhou I didn't see a bird around anywhere. Walmart is no worse than anyone else when it comes to selling Chinese goods. Funny thing about my last trip is I bought some leather shoes and inside they...

Sorry, I just saw this and sent David65 a private messege.

You might check with this guy. He seems to know where to get them

They do have the International Gem and Jewelry show in Santa Monica beginning of April. It's worth a walk through. I do it on occasion just to see what's happening there. I was just noticing that they don't allow anyone under 8 years old to attend. So bring your ID and be prepared to cut through...

It just looked big next to the chain to me. I would agree it is Akoya if that's the size.

What is the size? It almost looks large enough to be SS.

Now that's some poetic stuff there Dave. "All lines lead to the heart" Sounds like the title to something. ;)

I agree. Yours are pearls. They look like Polliwogs. :)

Mine was a nice Rosebud pearl I found in a mussel shell that I dug out of the Illinois River in Peoria about 1969. So long ago that Google was a sound babies made, A Yahoo was a fool, An Apple was something you took the teacher and Twitter was something you did behind a tree. ;)

Ah, Ya beat me to it. ;)

Not if it's free but I don't think the piece is free lose pearls. I think it's blisters cut out of a shell like the ones I posted and they added a peice of shell to the back to give it a finished look. Just cutting the blisters out would still leave the back unfinished so the appear to have...

These are a few Chinese freshwater mussel shells. You can see what I think we are looking at.

I'm thinking it's a sort of mabe cut out of a shell. Probably accounts for the dying. I have shells with the same blisters in them. I'm not a fan of dyed pearls (or shell) at all but it's a pretty piece. Now I will duck and run. ;)

I'm just sad because I'm missing the parties and I was looking forward to Gem jam. Next year Blaire and I are going to have to do a blues jam.

I don't know how medicinal it can be if the oyster spit it out. Just sayin' And BTW I take offense that they would remove the nucleus. That is probably the best part. ;)

Well done, Keep up the good work. :D