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Nothing so infuriates Oriental pearl men and nothing so delights Mr. Mikimoto as a decision of the French courts which he quotes from memory on all occasions thus: "Japanese culture pearls [Mikimoto]; produced by scientific stimulation of the oyster are in no sense false or imitation pearls. . . . They can be sold as real pearls without any indication of their origin."
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This topic is worthy of a docudrama. I would love to know the details on how Mikimoto got the French deciders to sell out so thoroughly.