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Dear Pearl Fans: Some of you have asked me to wholesale Akoyas to your enterprise (seeing as I am a pearl tourist and "visit" pearls- why can't I buy for you?). Hmmm. In the process of asking me to wholesale to you, you have demanded detailed information. Hmmm. I'm rather slow. I have to mull...

Problems with glass nuclei-Akoya pearls in Phuket Problems with glass nuclei-Akoya pearls in Phuket Dear Friends of the Akoya: Thanks. I feel much more cheerful about my trip to Phuket. Somehow, knowing that glass nucleated pearls have proven to be a failure historically makes me feel...

Dear Friends of the Akoya: I'm a hard-core pearl tourist. So when my Thai driver got me an unadvertised special Chiang Mai-Phuket from Thai Air, the Thai Baht just jumped from my wallet. I leave Tuesday for Phuket to visit two pearl farms, but I'm going with sinking feelings about the Phuket...

Dear Friends of the Akoya: I'm back in my comfortable home in Chiang Mai and very happy about my trip to Hanoi, Haiphong and Ha Long Bay. Vietnam Pearl was very kind to me. If it is true (as a Hanoi newspaper reporter informed us) that Vietnam is going to bury the remnents of socialism and...

Dear Friends ?f the Akoya: Re: buying pearls off a pearl r?ft in Ha Long Bay- all ưorkers are employees ?f a pearl company. Pun?shment for propẻrty th?ft in Asia is severe. Deal ưith the company, pl?ase-- and look out fỏr the ice-blue Akoyas. If you can find any. Ưhat a sủrprise! Beaut?ful.

Dear Friends of the Akoya: I am a hard-core pearl tourist, inclined to rush off to see a necklace anywhere in the world. When Terry and Jeremy began talking about Vietnamese Akoyas, I grabbed my credit card and booked a trip to Hanoi via Air Asia. Who have I been talking to for three days...

"The slump" "The slump" I estimate that the "slump" will be 12 quarters long. But if you put a dozen economists in a room they'll come up with a dozen different numbers. Don't take me seriously (well, do). Just be patient. Three years is a long time. I have very modest goals for my website: I...

I bought two strands of huge pearls that looked like high luster iridescent chewing gum: you know, the lumpy wad of bubble gum you chewed for an hour that has your tooth marks all over it? They were white freshwater, hence not kheshi. So what were they? Rebirth pearls. What??? Rebirth. They are...

To continue talking about the color-graduated pink Akoya pearls that I saw on Mikimoto's island, the reason they were so so impressive was the stunning work in color graduation. Sure, the strand started out as very bright pink pearls in the middle, but the pink pearls faded in color very gently-...

To continue talking about the color-graduated pink Akoya pearls that I saw on Mikimoto's island, the reason they were so so impressive was the stunning work in color graduation. Sure, the strand started out as very bright pink pearls in the middle, but the pink pearls faded in color very gently-...

I made a pilgrimage to Mikimoto's Island and to his store in Toyko just to see the Pearls in Motion featured on Mikimoto's website. I am a true pearl tourist. Show me a beautiful strand and I start searching the internet for cheap flights. So I went to Japan. Oops. My enthusiasm wilted. However...

I just returned from the June Hong Kong Gem and Jewelry show with an armfull of AAA round freshwater pearls. They are so so beautiful. Some of the strands are equal to the Akoya strands I saw in you-know-who's showroom in Tokyo. However, even if freshwater pearls are gorgeous and the best deal...

I'm off to Hanoi, Haiphong and the bay of Han La to visit pearl production sites and pearl farms. Yes, I understand that the Vietnamese harvest in October through December. This is a "Just Looking" trip and not much of a buying trip. I saw the Vietnamese yellow pearls at the June Hong Kong...

not everything is price not everything is price For the senior pearl dealers who have been rattling around China for a decade, price per size/quality is a serious consideration. For a novice like me, spending more and getting less sometimes has a huge payoff. OK, so I stayed in a ratty hotel...

Wow! Lots of changes in Zhuji City. A new hotel for starters. A new Pearl Market. Huge gate-guarded townhouse complexes. The one across from the new Pearl Market (next door to the old Pearl Market) sells for $220,000 dollars per 4 storey unit. The fact that the pearl merchants have that kind of...

clarification, please clarification, please Dear Jeremy: So I can import giant-clam shell bead nucleated pearls? I would NOT be in violation of US laws? I'm interested in them because of the carvings I saw on www.diamondinapearl.com. As you know I have a house in Thailand. The Chinese and the...

carved pearls carved pearls Dear Jeremy: If large FW pearls are clam-shell bead nucleated, then they might also be nucleated by colored clam shell beads. That would explain how www.diamondinapearl.com carves a pearl to reveal a "gemstone" core. They are really revealing a dyed clamshell core...

Super Baroque Super Baroque In Zhuji I bought two strands of super-baroque pearls that looked like chewed gum that had an extremely high luster. I found them interesting- maybe with gold cubes in between each pearl to set off the weird shapes. I will take jewelry design classes in the Spring...

I'm back from Zhuji- I really liked that green valley ringed by forested mountains. Fertile, irrigated, Zhuji was always a good place to be and now with pearl ponds and the Munsingware factories, it is even better. I was sent to the "famous" restaurant KFC and ate there with my driver. KFC was...

reply to jsshepard reply to jsshepard Assuming that problems with luster/orient in CFWP are either nacre-related or treatment (of the nacre) related, then (in your own experience) do untreated straight-from-the-mussel pearls have better luster/orient?