| The TIME article is uneducated as far as I'm concerned. The tooth test will not distinguish natural vs. cultured pearls. And seriously, if a person's at a large scale trade show which sources from pearl farms all over the world, and is located in HK/China where the majority of cultured freshwater occurs, it is just plain ignorant to say that. Since when has there been a large scale trade show for natural pearls? It's so rare you'd be lucky to get one vendor which specializes in their sales. Sea of Cortez pearls are rare enough, and the public almost never gets their hands on it. And it's not as rare as natural. I wonder what the fact checker gets paid for. |