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I do not know when any of the events are except Strack's talk. Thinking the Pearl Walk would follow the talk, but have no word on a P-G dinner, yet or who might be attending. I hope Douglas and Henrique, Sarah and Elisabeth will be attending as well as any one reading this who will be in...

An expired passport is OK for Guaymas- it is in the trade zone. a driver's license is fine too. - but don't you dare come through Tucson without visiting me!!!

I am giving this a bump as it is in just about a month.

http://www.ctsa.org/files/publications/CTSA_1276316728619239483681.pdf I am sure we listed this about 10 years ago, but just in case, here it is, again. Dream on. :cool:

This year's Strack lecture looks like a mini-PearlsasOne! It's on a Friday- a good day for a change! Note: Biwa pearls is spelled wrong in the blurb, but I did not change it..

Lot 296 A Published Gem: Large and Rare, Purple Non-nacreous Quahog Pearl USD 25,000 - USD 35,000 Date/Time: 7 Dec 2016 Location: Los Angeles For further details please refer to the auction on the Bonhams website by clicking here, or click on the lot: I am really interested in...

It is good reading. Would you mind posting this in its own thread on Pearl Books and Resources? I think it will get lost over here-

You welcome Orient. What I think we all need to work for is getting recognition for keeping all those pearls and chunks of shell in the Philippines where the species Tridacna gigas is under CITES protection. That means the locals can fish and eat the clams, but not sell them out of the country...

For that purple 10.5, I'd spend a lot more than $150.00 -maybe $500- because I KNOW how rare one of that color and size is, but the seller can NEVER get its real value. This is the second best Quahog pearl I have seen- since that original Victorian one than maybe never sold. I would proudly wear...

I have never seen anything quite like that. I can't see any nacre- it looks like ceramic. It is shaped like some tridacna clam pearls I have seen with the stem and its rather large size. (Didn't Augustus Pearls have some of these several years ago?) If you are in or near the Philippines...

Now that is a quahog pearl of great beauty, color and shape! While there is no market value for quahog pearls, I would feel comfortable putting a price on it that people would be used to paying for top quality cultured pearls . What I am suggesting is that even though it does not have a...

Mikimoto is the final word on their own strands. I think your strand looks good enough to run it by them. There is no better way to find out.

See my smile? :D I am impressed.

It is a new variation on the "Pearl in a shell, in a can" scam!!! This one is so pretend, it is NOT funny- even though I am laughing. Thanks for your detective work- you are the first to report this scam- that I know of.

Were you the one who sent one? I can't remember without looking back through PMs I may or may not still have. 3)There is a photo on this forum of the boxy piece. It looks cut and tumbled. It has parallel striations. It has to be shell. No T gigas pearl has ever presented without those...

What a way to join us with a bang! Thanks! I love having all those patterns in a thread with an easy to find title! I have never figured out one single design other than looping and I never even did the loop with the knot. Thanks again! If that necklace had several pieces joined by...

I just got an 'invitation' from Atlas to go to a 'pearls and opera' event. I can't think of anything fancier than that! Is anyone going to go? edited to add- I watched the film. The article and the video enhance the wisdom in the "Pearls As One" series. Sometimes I just cry at corporate...

Hey JP I got your first version I am positive that compost is not a pollutant. It is not a single chemical like phosphorous from detergents that pollute. Any pollutant like nitrogen or phosphorous is not alone, on its own, it is literally bound up in the compost into complex organic compounds...

Obviously we need more input, here. The manure is to feed the algae which feeds the mussels. Now, I do not think think these ponds are constantly manure-filled. Rather, they seem to be drained, manure applied- I do not not know for how long it stays that way, then the ponds are allowed to...

This subject bothered me so much that I have been doing research. Here is one article on the process of freshwater pearls farming. It appears I should have said "animal" manure. Before finding this article i looked at several rice paddy articles. Fish are often grown in rice paddy ponds. They...