[jerin]

Originally Posted by Ashley

We haven't yet made it to South Sea tincups- I find that alot of customers kind of balk at the price since they are so used to the cheaper freshwater versions... We recently ran a Tin Cup Sale (our April Monthly Special), and debuted this Tahitian Baroque and Black FW pearl Tin Cup

Hi Ashley,

I really do like your tin-cup style with the interspersed smaller dyed freshwater pearls but I wonder why you didn´t have that nice Tahitian from the "extender chain" in the center and the circled one as the end of the extender? The shape of the larger pearl is much more appealing to me and probably the extender is on the back of my neck so the pearl there will not be seen that much

[jerin]

Jeremy,

please explain once again the difference between a "station" necklace and what.

I prefer the style that Ashley has a photo from, not really like the big ring as shown in the Avatar, but a nice idea to have "dangling" pearls in the necklace.

What would such a piece cost? Amanda´s special was about 450 dollars if I remember, but if you are doing a tin cup in only Tahitians with the sizes mentioned that would mean at least 700 dollars or even more, depending on the high gold price and that is quite steep if compared to whole strands in the same quality grade,is that correct?

For myself I hope that it will be affordable so my collection can grow with different styles..

A Pelosi style sounds great but probably way too expensive for us ordinary customers, sigh...

[pearlescence]

Hi..What is a Pelosi style necklace.
I'm going to try out some of the tincups too. I think I will use silver first then if there is interest over here I could try vermeil to keep the cost down

[jerin]

Hi Wendy,

I think it refers to LARGE sOUT sEA PEARLS, in other words a real luxury tin cup. Pelosi had a whole strand of South Seas in an interview (she has probably more than one) and it was talked about it on the forum some time ago.

[Hanaleimom]

Hi,
The left picture is the South Sea strand. The right picture is the "Pelosi style": white and golden South Sea Pearls mixed with Tahitians. For more pictures, see our online vendors' necklaces here

http://www.thepearloutlet.com/roi/49...-PPN-01AAA.htm

and here http://www.pearlparadise.com/detail.aspx?ID=1145

[pearlescence]

Ah, now I understand.
well, no I don't because those necklaces are not pearls and chain...
Anyhow, here is a photo of our former Speaker of the House of Commons, Betty (now Baroness) Boothroyd.
She is wearing some fabulous pearls.

[Hanaleimom]

Originally Posted by pearlescence

Ah, now I understand.
well, no I don't because those necklaces are not pearls and chain...
Anyhow, here is a photo of our former Speaker of the House of Commons, Betty (now Baroness) Boothroyd.
She is wearing some fabulous pearls.

I believe when Jeremy talks about Pelosi tin cup he meant to incorporate the Pelosi style pearls into the Tin Cup strand. Therefore, mixing the gold, white and green pearls into various station/interval of the gold chain.

[Valeria101]

Considering a few factors: that large pearls look great on thin chain but the combination is potentially fragile, that gold costs what it does, that white metals are in... etc. I am surprised that titanium jewelry with pearls is so rare - I've never heard of such necklaces made with titanium chain at all, and only came to think of it for setting some large lapis beads on chain (they keep breaking conventional thin chain).

Just wanted to drop a line here because the price of Ti findings and pearls appear to match (from where I am standing); this isn't terribly important for my one piece, but for a whole line of jewelry just might make a difference. Otherwise, the reputation of the darn metal keeps rising in the jewelry ranks; it seems ripe for joining mainstream pearls anyway. And can be as black as Tahitians too...

What do you think?

[airdancer]

Perhaps Titanium is not thought of as jewelery more a functional metal? For instance, Titanium spectacle frames are useful because they are not suppose to break.

[boo]

I think I have posted this one before, but here it is again - despite the robust chain I presume this still qualifies as a Tin Cup style. The pearls range from 9-12.5mm (ish) so the size is roughly comparable to what Jeremy mentioned.

The photo in a larger and upright configuration can be seen on my photobucket page at http://s202.photobucket.com/albums/a...t=IMG_2096.jpg

I *finally* appear to have gotten a decent pearl photo - the reflections are nice and the blemishes hardly show at all Oh, and I apologize for the prodigious amounts of lint and fuzz on the velvet - hopefully you will be adequately dazzled by the pearls that you won't even notice... (I did try paper towel, but it is very windy today and the towel kept trying to blow away with my pearls, even when I tried to anchor it)

The pearls are rather nicely green except for one adjacent to the center pearl, which is kind of purply-green, and the middle pearl on the right hand side, which is actually green on one side and purple on the other (very cool). I had the "wrong" side showing when I took the photo - I should have primped it more.

Anyway, it is a very nice style that I wear for both casual and dressy occassions.

[GemGeek]

That's gorgeous and I love the larger center pearl. Lucky Boo!

[robinmce]

Originally Posted by jshepherd

This thread inspired me today. We have not carried a tin-cup style in more than five years, but there are a lot of things that can be done in pearl and chain, especially Tahitian.

Peacock circle Tahitians.

...with keshi pearls every few inches up to the start of the drape.

A "Pelosi" style tin-cup with white SS, golden SS and Tahitians.

I think we are going to start tinkering with it next week.

I look forward to seeing them!
I love tahitian tincups and a pelosi style tinsup sounds incredible.
Have one from with chocolate 11-12 tahitians
...and one I just made with sterling chain and smooth aqua pink baroque tahitians. Both get a lot of wear.
Robin

[GemGeek]

Wow, those are terrific, too!

[robinmce]

I love Boo's with the beautiful round tahitians!!

[Raisondetre]

I think the problem with titanium is that it is not malleable. My titanium ring is very strong but the guy who did mine said he had to drill it with laser, so if they make a mistake with the wrapping it is hard to correct. Love the tincups! Trust me to actually bother to post while actually on tour ... in a smoke-filled cybercafe in Fukuoka right now. And yeah, the pearls are so expensive retail! Tasaki pearls do rock though ...