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Of course! Email me with your details and I'll send them out!

You are all very welcome!

I still have a few hundred of these tickets left over and the drawing is the week after next, so if you haven't requested tickets yet, let me know!...

I mailed over 100 tickets today! The CPAA is sending me another batch for arrival tomorrow, so if I haven't emailed you to let you know the tickets are on their way yet, don't worry. More are coming!

Jewelmer and the CPAA have teamed up to send two people to Flower Island in the Philippines, but they are having a hard time selling tickets to the raffle. I've decided to help by buying them up and...

Mabe pearls are very different than whole pearls. Plastic nuclei could be used with mabe because when the pearls are harvested, the nucleus is removed and the pearl is filled with resin. The plastic...

No they are not. It would not work for several reasons.

This is a photo of it actually happening in Vietnam. If you can make it out, there is a photograph on a Vietnamese akoya pearl farm on top of the Chinese pearls. The vendor used the photo in an...

They will almost certainly tell you they are grown locally, but you should arm yourself with knowledge before trying to do any negotiating with the sellers. The first piece of knowledge you should...

Hi Tom,

Reselling them can be quite difficult but it might be worth your while to just visit a few of the jewelers and see what their interest level is. The pearls sold at the pearl shops and...

The pearls aren't grown in Bangladesh. They are Chinese freshwater - imported.

I can't tell if you're joking or serious in this post ... about the ad or whether you believe it.

The contest is now live on our website and on Facebook! It would be so cool if someone from PG was the one chosen for the trip!
https://www.facebook.com/pearlparadise

.... and we are back!

When the power came back on we realized that we had lost four computers to the power surge that accompanied the outage and nearly ever surge protector (that worked) was...

Hi Everyone,

This is just a quick note for people that have been trying to reach us this week. Our building has been without power since yesterday morning so the phones don't work and we can't...

For those interested in going to Flower Island, watch our site and Facebook page over the next couple of days;)

Researchers from both Japan and Bahrain will conduct joint research this year on pearl oysters from off the Middle Eastern nation’s coast, with the hope of reviving the traditional industry from...

I'm sure it's the same thing and probably made by the same people.

I can't really say whether or not it is worth it because it really depends on what you are looking for. But just be aware that...

If they are real, they are freshwater pearls. But Groupon keeps at least 50% of the sale, which means they are complete garbage. It's probably the kind of material that is typically ground up for...

I spent a few days at Jewelmer's farm in 2011. The farm is uber-remote, but Jewelmer built a resort at the farm people can visit.

Check out their website and photos. It's one of the most...

I am sure you'll find a few that dive for pearls to support themselves. It definitely happens in Mexico, for example. But you won't find anything commercial. Pearl farming is what killed the pearl...

Over the years, I've spoken to quite a few different production companies interested in making similar shows. I know Josh (a pearl farmer that posts here) has too, but nothing has ever come of it. In...

Wow! Big and bold! Very nice!

Those are serious nacre issues that you are seeing. They are not going to last very long at all. If it was a lot of money and you have the ability to, I would suggest sending them back.

JNorris on this forum has experience peeling pearls.

It would be a complete gamble because of the quality of the photos. It could be worth hundreds of dollars, it could be worth the value of the clasp.