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Old 10-14-2006, 11:37 PM
Zeide Erskine Zeide Erskine is offline
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Hi Jeremy,

I am still not quite sure what the Stauer people have in mind there. The "seed pulling" sounds like an extraction of a natural pearl sac. However, full in vitro culturing is way more expensive than making a pearl plated bead in vivo. I don't think their beads are even the precipitate kind because those are also more expensive to produce than what they are selling their beads for. I thusly assume they have no clue of what they are talking about and just confabulated something from bits and pieces of information here and there to hype up the standard illegal-tridacna-bead-avec-pearly-acrylic-spray-paint stuff from Vietnam.

Zeide
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