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More pictures coming ! I suppose the pearls are being prepared for the sale, nicely presented in individual boxes !

Another question coming to my mind : I thought it was forbidden nowadays to fish most of pearling oysters in all parts of the world. This doesn't apply to Pinctada Maculata which gives the pipi pearl ? Because the owner says this a new crop, so these are not antique pearls. Anybody knows about...

The oldest known natural pearl (7500 years old) has been found last year in a grave of the UAE. So maybe the climate of this world's area is the best for the conservation of pearls and should be reproduced...

But really, are these pearls really rare or comparatively common ? When you see so many at once, you wonder !

OK so here are the 2 pictures (I hope it works). The owner says he has 300 pearls for sale and one is 9.6 mm.

OK I'll do that tonight then. I am at my office right now and have no access to FB here. I don't think the date of the auction has passed, the opening of this FB post seems to be fairly recent. The owner indicated he would keep us updated as soon as he would know the exact sales date.

Oups sorry I thought this was a public FB page and everybody could see it. Well there is a photo showing a full plank of poe pipi pearls with various shapes, colors and sizes, and the owner explains there will be an auction sale of these pearls and more in the H?tel Drouot (our big parisian...

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Hi to all I just had the answer to the question I was asking ! I got in touch with Hubert Bari, co-organizer of the exhibition, and he explained to me that it was too difficult to obtain the customs papers and authorizations for the CITES specimens of endangered species. So they gave up for...

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Not sure if this is the right place to post this question, but since this exhibition is mostly about natural pearls... has anybody around here gone to see it ? http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/exhibition-pearls/about-the-exhibition/ I am just back from it. I was very surprised that...

Personnally I would stick to a simple strand. When pearls are close together, especially colored pearls, I think they set each other off better. And you never get tired of a classical, simple design. The play of light on pearly nacre, set on the skin around the neck, is quite enough to make it...

Just being curious : how can you know that a pearl is mature, or over-mature ? Are there signs, typical features ?

The trouble is, precisely, this is difficult to tell ! And the financial stake is huge !

I think it might help them to determine recent keshis from old naturals. Here there is a real difference in value. They have trouble too with supposed naturals which are in fact cultured with an ugly natural as a bead. Here again, DNA might help, regarding the age at least.

http://www.paris-joaillerie.com/paris-joaillerie/tendance/les-perles-fines-de-claudie-ple.html Claudie Pl? is the last natural pearls dealer in Paris. You can still find wonders in her safe, depending on what you're looking for. She sells loose pearls as well.

Hi Pattye, thanks for this friendly and welcoming message. I don't participate too often, feeling that the level of expertise is high on the forum, much higher than mine, but I do appreciate the spirit and atmosphere reigning here !

Hello, I completely agree with Caitlin. The pearls close to the clasp are too biggish compared to the more centered ones, These proportions are not what you could find on a classical graduated natural strand. Besides, the drop or pear shape pearls on the necklace are very often a sign of...

That kind of shell with "failed" pearls still attached was selling for 3 or 4 euros per piece (5 or 6 US dollars) at the last exhibition I attended. A by product of mass freshwater pearl cultivation.

I teach gemology so I had better have a scholarly bent...:) And I had the opportunity to meet Elizabeth personally, so the least I could do after that was to buy her book. We have 2 or 3 reference books in french as well but Strack's is by far and large the most complete and updated.