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The answer to your first question is yes and I imagine that all your questions may be answered at: http://americanpearlcompany.com/

Yes, it's gone up quite a bit over the years... :eek: However, we still have the cheap alternative of reading it on Farlang, bless their rosy little hearts... I'll try and get in touch with Charles. It may be next week sometime. I haven't spoken with him for a few years, though I know where...

I spot checked about 1/3 of the abalone pearls on Multicolor.com and found that they all seem to fall into three price per carat catagories. They were either about $640.00 pc, $240.00 pc or $160.00 pc. No middle ground or range of price between these. Does anyone else find this strange?

Wow--that's really something! What a discovery under that ugly surface! Congratulations! To answer the question--yes, I have done some pearl peeling. In fact, some years ago, in Burlington, WA, I worked for Charles Yousling, a jeweler from Redondo Beach who referred to himself as "The Pearl...

The "Chow" system that you describe roughly parallels the pricing that one finds in most precious gemstones. It is a matter of rarity and is usually set by the marketplace. They go up exponentially with size because the larger they are, the fewer there are at a ratio generally reflected in the...

Mervione--We have an old saying over here. It goes: Those who can't do, teach. ...and they often get surly and nasty to cover up their inadequacy! ;)

Actually, Caitlin, I was not referring to blister pearls but rather to pearls that begin as solid, free pearls, formed in the mantle, that have come loose from the mantle, then apparently held in place against the shell while nacre or conchiolin was being secreted, thus cementing the pearl to...

Well!!--They didna' conquerrr Scotland lassie!!:mad: Rrrrememberrr Hadrrrians wall!! Built by the Rrromans to keep us Picts frrrom carrrvin' 'em up!!!:eek:....;)

One clue to the mystery of the pearls preservation is that desert soils tend to be significantly more alkaline than those subjected to more rainfall. Water moving up from groundwater below evaporates leaving it's salts behind. Such a beautiful jewel on the ear of such a beautiful young woman...

Truly fascinating! It reinforces the impression I have formed about pearl formation from my admittedly limited study of abalone pearls. However, I have had the "advantage" of having blundered my way through about 7 (Yes! Sniffle, seven, whimper. . .) of these pearls with either diamond rock saw...

Interestingly, as I posted in an earlier thread, I found one of these shells on a beach just south of Bellingham, WA. Thoroughly surprized by finding a purple lined shell on a NW beach, I spent some time on the internet and found it was just this species of clam, probably introduced by...

Haven't kept up lately, but I'm back. \ Patty--Those are really lovely shells you have. I think they're a different species than mine are. My shells are formed of material that seems a bit on the soft side and don't hold the greatest luster in the world.

Honestly, I think that it's just too soon to know what the fallout will be. The Wall Street sheep are still bleating pathetically and stampeding from one side of the field to the other everytime a Pekinese barks or a mouse squeaks.:eek: One thing that will help is that, in spite of the...

Sorry--forgot to check back in for a while. What I think is that I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole without a GIA cert. They sure look like a lot of cultured fresh water pearls that I have handled and even sold over the years.

Ve-e-e-e-r-r-y interesting.:rolleyes: http://cgi.ebay.com/Estate-30-Inch-Tennessee-River-1920-s-Pearl-Necklace_W0QQitemZ220299586184QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item220299586184&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

OK. Here are the photo's of shells that I found in my supplies--taken in diffuse natural light. As you can see, parts of them have been made use of as inlay.:D I probably have some more but can't lay my hands on them at the present. I put the small portion in to show the variation in color that...

I got some pictures of the pink FW shells today. I'll put them in a new thread that I'll call "Pink FW MOP Shells" in this same forum.

Hi to Steve and the Wrights, Have been too busy to breath for the last few days but I'll try to find and photo some of the pink FW shells tomorrow for the Wrights. Steve: looks like you and Almudena had a good trp. Thanks for telling us about it.

I see. Mine are pinker than the photo as well. Curiouser and curiouser. . . I'll see if I can dig them out and post some photos. Also--the shape of that shell in your photo is not congruent with any salt water mussle shells that I have seen or know of.

Steve, Is Rob absolutely sure about the source of that shell? It sure looks a lot like some of the Mississippi watershed FW MOP shells that I have. They have very thick nacre as well. Is it as pink as it looks in the photos?