Is this a Pearl?

[elizatex]

We found this in an oyster. My friend swears it is a pearl, but it is so ugly and I can't find any other photos that look like this. Thank you for any feedback you can provide! I have a couple of more photos if that helps.

[Valeria101]

Could be...

What the thing looks like doesn't matter as much to the mollusk as to well, us, and even among humans a whole lot just take pearls for the biological thing that they are: the lot calls themselves 'conchologists', on account of a branch of Victorian natural sciences. Some of the lot get together HERE.

[Disclaimer : I am only speaking of what I can see in the picture - apparently a 'blister pearl' with a large opening showing some dark organic goo inside, as sometimes happens with pearls of all origin, and the natural pearls - as this is presumed - are sometimes forgiven for... under advisement. I am also taking the question at face value, on a hunch.]

Just a thought...

[elizatex]

Hi,
A blister pearl...that seems like a good name for it. I think it looks like a rotted tooth Should I do anything with it or just save it for the kids to use for "show and tell" and such. Could it be worth anything?

Thanks for your input.
Beth

[pattye]

Hi Beth and welcome to the forum,

Sorry, no value except as you say, for "show and tell". It would be cool if you still had the shell also.

[elizatex]

Thank you for your feedback. What a nice forum this is!

[lisa c]

Aren't all pearls that ugly until polished? I picked up that idea after looking at the baskets of pearls recovered from the Spanish shipwreck - the Sister ship of the Atocha. Is my perception wrong, are some pearls beautiful from the get-go?

[GemGeek]

Aren't all pearls that ugly until polished? I picked up that idea after looking at the baskets of pearls recovered from the Spanish shipwreck - the Sister ship of the Atocha. Is my perception wrong, are some pearls beautiful from the get-go?

Check this out - me squeezing a south sea pearl out of the oyster...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q36hnmwRLQg

[lisa c]

Ooooooh, GG, I get your point! That pearl was beautiful. Do many come out looking like that? Just amazing!
Thanks,
Lisa