I want to tell you publicly what I have said privately. I do not know who pearldiver52865 is. I assumed that it was one of my many B&M independent jewelers. I have not been able to contact pearldiver52865.

I stand by my statement that pearl grading is not standard and Mikimoto is different than Mastoloni.

I checked PearlParadise.com and it seems their Hanadama Pearls would be AAAA on PP grading system Imperial does not use AAAA Crown is equal to AAA on our grading system. I would compare the situation to Celsius and Fahrenheit

I believe that having the opportunity to select the very best that the crop has to offer is significant in the pearl business in fact PearlParadise has this privilege with its Chinese Akoya farm and none of that material would be available to me.

This relationship for Imperial is with the finest Japanese Suppliers hence my pride in Crown cultured pearls.

As to pearldiver’s name calling innuendos and accusations I don’t think it was useful to any point that was trying to be made nor do I support it.

I thought there were some interesting issues and was sad to see it disintegrate to angry tirades.

I appreciate what pearl-guide brings to the universe of pearls and my goal is to work in harmony and a sprit of cooperation with all pearl lovers. In fact I promote this forum.

I prefer to try to keep things constructive not destructive it has been my conviction that all pearl competitors work together for the greater good there is enough business for all.

I do not know pearldiver but I do know the Mastoloni family and this does not seem to be characteristic of them in fact for the most part computers and blogs are not part of their world but it realy does not matter.