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I agree!. So glad to hear about the drilling.

I am convinced that most of them don't know the difference. They don't buy pearls from pearl people, they buy them from their own wholesalers- manufacturers. MSC. If anyone knows a pipi, you do. I don't see how a pteria sterna could be for sale at Barney's unless it is on a one of a kind...

I just LOVE the pearls Catherine Cardellini chooses for her pearls. I have more pearls than I need, but sometimes I peruse Catherine's pages just to covet all the yummy strands. My eye is always a little opened by her pearl choices, and I think, "I want to be able to do it like that" over and...

I have natural pearls I wear daily that are from 50-100 years old. While the nacre rubs off over time as can be seen around the drill holes, it just exposes more nacre. That is my theory for the freshwaters too. Once I wore a freshwater bracelet for over a year, day in and day out on a...

Thanks everyone. Mwaah! I'll bring the little mouse to the ruckus. She likes it on the chain with the grand pearl!:o (she is in position to eat the food that would otherwise fall on my shirt, LOL).

Thanks, the round aubergine is my treasure pearl! it is aubergine with a green halo, thanks to Grey's Anatomy. There is a photo of it here. I think the title of the thread is,"a pearl for a special lady" or something similar, started by Jeremy. That's not the title, but here is the thread!

BTW I was so great to be around Jeremy and Hisano, our wonderful hosts, and to hug everybody!

That mouse stole my show when I saw it in a little Gump's round, cloth, padded, box with two Bumble bee pins. I bought it for $5.00 at one of the many thrift stores in Green Valley.It is stamped 14k under the tail. GV is great for 2nd hand stores because it is a retirement community. The best...

This about the second time I have heard of this outfit. Hope to hear more!

I bought this one off eBay as an American freshwater. When I showed it to Jim Peach a couple of years later, he said it was Persian Gulf, pinctada radiata and showed me some others like mine. Jim Peach of American Pearls is one guy that knows American freshwater pearls. What do you think...

To know him is to love him.

Utility grade - I like that. When they say they get 10,000 "natural pearls", 90% or more will be utility grade. Or to be specific, they will be rather irregular seed pearls. Even the seed pearls get high graded, and low graded, LOL.

Dave, what pretty pearls! Are they ones you collected? Can you tell us the species the pearls came from?

Thanks for sharing your work on this, it is really good information. Glad you have the tenacity to pursue it.:)

European unios, a lot of which made it to market, were, depleted by the 1900. There was a glut before the fall in Scotland which produced many pearls. According to Strack p 200, in 1865 alone, 12,000 pounds of Scottish freshwaters made it onto the market, so your guess is as good as mine...

Actually, I was blown away to discover this. It explains the plethora of pearl jewelry in Mexico in the 1950's when I visited there and even spent a summer in 1957. Bodecia and I used to wonder where those Mexican pearls came from- the Persian Gulf sounded too far fetched for Mexicans to be...

I can't tell you how nervous I get if I seem to contradict Dave, but I see this as an opportunity to raid pearl history as a possibility for the kind of pearls these are. While I think they look quite like my grandfather's seed pearls, and thus they could be Persian Gulf pearls according to...

Hi Thanks for posting the picture. Pattye is right. I have two wing American natural pearls very much like that, except they don't look like fish. They are from another Pearle-Guider, Norm, known here as "pearlman" He has a huge collection of them because he lives in Wisconsin which is...

I woke up today thinking about this thread. I am very sorry, I did not just relate the brief history of Biwa pearls in my first answer. So I want to make up for that now. Dr Masao Fujita, in a about 1924 went to Lake Biwa from his previous endeavors with Mikimoto. A fully trained technician, he...

They did not lose their provenance. They were sold from Lake Biwa companies to pad their output. It is just that now we know the pearls from China were mixed in and all sold as Biwas. After all, they were all pearls from Biwa pearly mussels.