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Thanks so much.....The older I get the busier I am. Making toys again...along with 30 others....1000 toys.... Found some interesting information on pearl dealer of Iowa....more to follow....kick me if I forget, PLEASE.... STAY WELL

I finally sat down to add Wisconsin pearl history URL's ....All information stemming from coauthor of Spring Article 2012. I'll try to load actual URL URl was not permitted to copy until newer quarterly issues have been printed. $$...

HI all visited hobby clammer and helped author smf we were quite amazed at the numbe of pearls he harvested in just 8 trips to the River in during 2 week vacation spanning 4 years. The most interesting was matching 4mm +/- brownish ROUND from the same clam. I am at a customers doing this...

http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/highlights/archives/2012/03/12_spring_issue.asp At this site is a summary of an article I contributed to describing the pearl rush of 1890's. At this time pearls were 4x more expensive than diamonds and owned by many in royality. In Kuntz's book he describes...

bars bars Hi Ya don't know where the time goes. Been working and enjoy working. Had a shutdown by ATT on my email for some time. Glad I had two. Actually I have 4 or 5. ;( I thnk the pearl article is online by now. With my poor memory I'll try and link/ Milwaukee beading show was huge...

holes larger? I sure hope you didn't make the holes larger on such nice pearls holes larger? I sure hope you didn't make the holes larger on such nice pearls I am kinda a freak on changing the natural item.

Here is a three strand bracelet I made with special bars. I don't remember if the pearls were Akoya or fine FWCP.

One day I was having a dental filling and asked the Doc what he used for filling. Teeth and pearl are close relatives. Bingo! My brain went in gear. I might have a solution to redoing the mystery clasps holes and change the 0 value of 6 pearls and sell the necklace they came from. I found out...

Hi If I would have left them and put them on leather what do Ido with the 20 or so matching. buy more that match at 500-1000 each, naaaah, I have no problem selling as an estate necklace 21 " long and divulge the "working" any one who knows value is not going to be bothered by the repair...

For the mean time the process will remain company property. Sorry Copyright, trademark, or patent being explored.

Your right about the pearl.....BUT my German sense of order makes its picture belonging-to another forum. You don't know how long and how many months passed with Apple classes before I became moderately good at Iphoto and able to attached photos. I have zillions. I just love the Air. If you...

Hmmmm I found the cheap Chinese drills to brittle and break inside the hole. It takes a bit to release the broken piece and not worth the time sometimes if not for just trying it out to see if it works. I had the Japanese drills sharpened in Japan for free. Lucky me. I drill dry and slow...

Hi I finally made the post but screwed it up a bit by not being able to delete the necklace picture which is not the necklace to which the pearls I fixed belong.

Chinese quality control sucks. Never happens with Japanese material. Its not normal but no doubt the result of being paid by the number of pearls drilled without regard to the outcome. Just drill,drill,drill. Sorry I've had them also and just chuck them or make pendants out of them. Sell...

David It is just photo'd on a mirror with natural light, strand is natural blue.

that strand is not coated but a super fine anna damma certified by Japan lab/ I jjust couldnt figure out how to delete the strand picture.

Thats not the finished strand I couldnt figure out how to delete the strand picture..

I don't quite know which forum to post this story. Several years ago a jeweler customer of mine and I took a 15mm strand of So Sea in trade on a 17mm strand. Retail customer had three mystery clasps in her necklace so she could wear at 18-21 and 24 inches. Each mystery clasp section had two...

Pearls are quite durable to water and soap, not detergent. My mother started stringing in the 30's cause of hole in heart. Which was fixed in 1957. We still string and she passed on in 02 outliving all her doctors. ANYWAY we always string the dirty ones on cotton cord. Double. Then loop...

Hi I couldn't add any mor gracious comments that have been said already. Color and quality can't be beat. But. U knew that was coming. Organic FWCP are much less in that size, not as pretty but, still pretty and available in other natural colors than white . Some are white pink. Round 11 mm +...