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Blister? Blister? Hello, All, Hats off to Jeremy Norris! Now...acting the contrarian...is that a blister pearl or a ridge of nacre initiated by a worm? Is there a distinction? Happy 2010 to all! Tom

A Fine Read A Fine Read Dear Richard, I just finished The French Blue, (Kindle version) a great read for someone interested in pearls and gems, and a very good story for others. As a novelist myself, I compliment you on your dialogue, your tremendous research, and for your ability to keep...

Old pearls Old pearls To me, it looks as if these pearls languished in terrible conditions, in which the outer layers fractured and dirty water got between the lamellae of natural pearls. As you say, though, the phenomenon could be nacre splitting away from a bead nucleus...although it does...

Beheadings Beheadings Dear All, Despite the slaughter and beheadings of 57 people a couple of days back, and in spite of last week's beheading of a school principal, and aware of the wave of kidnappings for ransom in Sulu and North Borneo, we continue to dive for pearls. This, however...

Paula Crevoshay ring using T. Stern natural white conch Paula Crevoshay ring using T. Stern natural white conch Hello, all, Brilliant designer Paula Crevoshay selected a white conch from our stock of natural pearls and created this beautiful ring. Happy Thanksgiving to all, Tom

Wrong about superstition Wrong about superstition Hi, Now I will report as Prince of Sulu and North Borneo. Kunz must have misunderstood, because I've asked the old ones what the oldest folks they ever knew thought about the pros and cons of Nautilus pearls, and close to 100% of them say a...

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Hi, For pearls of lower value, your style is just fine. Use a scale to two decimal points, measure and compare carefully, read the descriptions carefully, and if photographs are on the reports and seem identical (now standard), you will be pretty confident your cert in hand refers to that...

Verifications Verifications Hello, The labs usually have records to 0.001 carats, and you can ask that to be put on the cert. An old sheikh pearl dealer told me, "To be a pearl trader requires 3 things. A lot of passion. A lot of time. And a lot of money." Inasmuch as an individual...

Hi, Welcome to Pearl-Guide. Anyone trading natural pearls should have a scale accurate to 3 places to the right of the decimal, and should request reports that weigh the pearl to such precision. Using weights of the pearls to .001 of a carat improves confidence that you have the right cert for...

Jewellery Arabia Jewellery Arabia Hi, All, At Jewellery Arabia, I have personally seen that hundreds of thousands of cultured pearls are allowed into Bahrain by their Customs for sale, in stark contrast to official regulations, as set out by Caitlin. Maybe the rest of the year they hew to...

Bahrain Certs Bahrain Certs Hello, Yvonne, I regularly use the Bahrain Lab, under Director Ali Safar, and believe it is excellent. On the question of authenticity, the buyer by tradition usually has the right to recertify before paying. For a simple laboratory number, you could call the...

Sea Worm Sea Worm Hi, Steve, Yes, all moving forward nicely. I would think of some kind of parasitic worm attaching to the shell causing that raised area. You? Tom

Detachment Detachment Yes, I see where the shell broke because the blister was unscientifically detached. It reminds me of asking myself frequently when dealing with this culture, "What was he thinking?" But it gives me hope that another exists! Great! Thanks for your provocative find...

Old Pearls Old Pearls Hello, I recently purchased 40 old pearls in China, I judge them to be approximately 1780. The biggest is about 14 carats, and the surfaces of most have peeling areas that show inner layers. While this can sometimes be corrected by a "pearl doctor" there is no...

Cat it Cat it Cat it? Oh no! #*%&!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Reminds me of when my Chinese Indonesian friend and his Mexican wife went car shopping and bought a "tonka." I kept quiet because I had no idea a toy manufacturer had begun production of full-size autos. Finally they picked us up in...

Second blister report from Borneo Second blister report from Borneo All Nautilus cognoscenti, Our second possible blister Nautilus we also decided was a shell abnormality, not a true blister that we could send to Ken for reporting. So, the goal has not been reached. Possibly Steve's...

Good job Good job The friendly race is not over until there can be no room for doubt, because certain non-believers will grasp at any possible alternative explanation. So at this point, notwithstanding the tremendously persuasive photographs provided by Steve, which I personally believe to be...

Motives Motives Hi, All, Cosmic, indeed! I know each of the men looking has the purpose of feeding his family. If they do not find one, does that mean they failed the purity test? Or only that the one who sent them on the hunt can fail? Not at all ulterior, my motives can be spelled out...

That is correct Natural. Do not kill anything for this specific purpose. Datuk Tom