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Glad to see that pearls and stargazing can go together. Clear skies!

Very nice! Is it just my imagination or is the nautilus shell on page 111 of Strack peeled as well? Whether it is or not, it is so striking that a quick trip to Dresden to see it would be in order.

Excellent work! I think you have something for everyone in your wide variety of styles. I took forever to pick my top ten favourites, mainly because I kept getting over 20.:) Regardless, I think these are the finest: ?Polished Silver Swirl?, ?Sixteen Natural Rubies?, ?Twenty Five Natural...

You may want to be careful of putting your pearls on eBay or a similar site. Such places are full of low quality pearls being dumped on the market by China and its neighbours. If you just want to sell low quality in bulk, then OK. But, if you want to set yourself apart and promote quality...

Thanks for the welcome! I have enjoyed reading your posts, and look forward to reading many more.

Despite the weird and wonderful name calling, I think ?peanut pearls? is the most common name. Or at least I found almost eight times the references to ?peanut pearls? as to any other name. Couldn?t find any superb pictures though, but you can take a look at...

After I read and I started to wonder if the natural chemistry of different mollusc might govern the coloration of the individual species, and waterborne chemicals cause variations from the norm. Just speculating here, anybody know for sure?:confused:

I totally agree with the statement;

Just today I was trying to improve my pearl photos, that info really helped! Thanks!