Incredible Melo Melo Pearl, or, The Pearl That Ate New York City!

[pattye]

Cliclasp,

You have a beautiful melo melo and wonderful to have a shell also! Thanks for showing the Tiffany piece, yes, it is gorgeous! Alas, probably I will not ever have a melo melo or a conch, but content myself with 2 strombus gigas shells and an abalone shell given me as a baby by my grandfather, which I still have and adore the lovely colors almost as much as if it were the pearls themselves!

 

[la_corsetiere]

In the hands of the right jeweler, I think it could be an amazing pendant on a very long chain on a very tall person!

Ooooh, here I am, lusting after something I can't have. So terribly frustrating!!!

I'd really like to have the snail as a pet - very cute.

I never knew anything about these pearls, but they really are quite strikingly beautiful.

Sheri

 

[GemGeek]

Wow, Cliclasp! How cool is that? These gems are so rare that it makes sense that they would be identifiable, but small world, huh?

This thread keeps getting better - love the Tiffany necklace!

 

[Miriam Reed]

Hey Blaire,
That's some Melo Melo! I love the flame structure. Thanks for the interesting links.

And CliClasp - that's so funny, photographing the melo pearl on a melo shell without realizing it! Congratulations on a lovely pearl.

 

[Monty Hall]

Blaire,

Many thanks for the fabulous photos! 'minds me of a kumquat!

Cliclasp,

It's so great that you own such a fine melo melo. I feel now as though I've met a "pearl celebrity"! (Have you named it?)

 

[CLICLASP]

CarolK
I strongly agree with what you say in your signature (out of topic
no name for my little one so far,

Miriam,
when I shot the melo pearl, I knew about her mother of pearl bailer shell ...
but I did not knew about when I bought it years before ...