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Akoya Keshis
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Jeremy,
I have to ask since I feel a bit confused. I take it that the Akoyas were nucleated in the usual way and after about 18 months they were harvested. Those Keshis in the basket would be without nucleus, thus the baroque shape. But You did harvest fullround pearls as well, as I understand it?
A question that comes to mind is that Mikimoto in the early years let the shells in the water for several years. How then did he manage to get such shperical shapes?
I think of the picture with the Akoya "Liberty Bell" he hade made for the New York World?s Fair 1939 as well as the pearl replica of the Pagoda of Horyuji that is now displayed in Mikimoto?s store on the Ginza in Tokyo acc. to my book.
The only logical reason would be that his pearls were not that large- on the other hand - if he let the pearls be for such a long time in the shells - how could he get rounds at all and they certainly would have to be quite large as well? Your 18 mounts Akoyas reach sizes of 11 mm after just this relatively short time - Mikimoto had a time from 2- 4 years, I read somewhere....
Is it the mollusk itself that rejects tissue only nucleated organic material?
And if that is so, are South Sea pearls "producers" - the Maxima Pinctadas reacting the same way as the Pinctada Fucata/Martenssi/Shimitzuensis (Akoya pearls) or why are they alwas tissue nucleated and prepared with a nucleus besides?
Akoya Keshis
jshepherd said:
Jeremy,
I have to ask since I feel a bit confused. I take it that the Akoyas were nucleated in the usual way and after about 18 months they were harvested. Those Keshis in the basket would be without nucleus, thus the baroque shape. But You did harvest fullround pearls as well, as I understand it?
A question that comes to mind is that Mikimoto in the early years let the shells in the water for several years. How then did he manage to get such shperical shapes?
I think of the picture with the Akoya "Liberty Bell" he hade made for the New York World?s Fair 1939 as well as the pearl replica of the Pagoda of Horyuji that is now displayed in Mikimoto?s store on the Ginza in Tokyo acc. to my book.
The only logical reason would be that his pearls were not that large- on the other hand - if he let the pearls be for such a long time in the shells - how could he get rounds at all and they certainly would have to be quite large as well? Your 18 mounts Akoyas reach sizes of 11 mm after just this relatively short time - Mikimoto had a time from 2- 4 years, I read somewhere....
Is it the mollusk itself that rejects tissue only nucleated organic material?
And if that is so, are South Sea pearls "producers" - the Maxima Pinctadas reacting the same way as the Pinctada Fucata/Martenssi/Shimitzuensis (Akoya pearls) or why are they alwas tissue nucleated and prepared with a nucleus besides?
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