In spite of all the reasearch I've done, mostly on the internet, over the past few years, I'm finding it very difficult to assign a value to the Cascadia Moon pearl. For some reason, there has been very little attention given to abalone blister pearls over the years. As far as I can tell, this is a very unique pearl, and certainly the largest natural abalone blister pearl (before I made it into a mabe.') that I've ever seen or heard of, but I'm not sure how much weight I should give that. On occasion my speculations can get a little exhuberant
and I start to wonder if it isn't the largest such item in the world. . .
The problem is that there seems to be very little published on natural abalone blister pearls. When I had it finished, I called up a Graduate Gemologist that I know and she came right down to the store, oohed and aahed a bit, took a lot of measurements and said she was going to investigate. Haven't heard yet, though. Does anyone have advice about this subject for me?
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J Marcus
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