| Hi Valeria
Who is Stephen Hoffer? Too many of them to Google.
HI Peter
I love your idea, even presented as a playful one, it rings, klink, klank, klonk! Frankly I think it would be fun to grade pearls in terms of "Zeide's". Of course PPB's could not count on such a scale, so it could only apply to CFWP and naturals- until the others start tissue nucleating without beads.
I use the grading in the article to your left. I thought it was fairly well accepted- but maybe only here. This is really a problem for the pearl industry, in my opinion. Maybe the Chinese gov't could come up with something that would start there, in China, when the pearls are harvested and graded. I would think that the Chinese gov't would have the muscle to enforce it.
Meanwhile, it is a c**p-shoot for the customer! ( I self-censored because I couldn't think of a better word.)
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