27mm Kamoka Tahitian Pearl!!!!!!!!!!

[la_corsetiere]

OK, hugely disappointed, hugely relieved...

Sheri

[Mikeyy]

That is cruel and funny and right on time...

[pattye]

Sheri, Josh,

OK, hugely disappointed, hugely relieved...

Me too!

[Nora]

and we are hugely amused !!!!

Thanks Josh

[Caitlin]

Sounds like everyone gives you Pearlitzer Prize for best April Fool's joke.

Now I am relieved of watching you as a Steinbeckian character trying to overcome the greed and corruption of the world to get a good price for your pearl.....whew!

[Josh]

Haha, I'm amused too.
Caitlin, next time I see you I'll tell you my The Pearl story. It was a flawless 15mm light green jewel of a pearl... I regret it to this day.

[Marianne]

Hi Josh,
Does that story begin.... "It was a dark and stormy night"... or "Once upon a time"...?

Happy Easter
Marianne

[Caitlin]

Haha, I'm amused too.
Caitlin, next time I see you I'll tell you my The Pearl story. It was a flawless 15mm light green jewel of a pearl... I regret it to this day.

Josh, You are such an archetype- or maybe several of them- Your surfing. Your photography. Your pearl farm. Your Pearls. Your Principles. Your magical scene. Your discipline. Your work ethic. Your Excellent sense of Timing, Your worry about fluctuating conditions. Your concern for the future, the environment, your own best possible future, that of your children. People who get your pearls are getting a piece of your life work. They are buying into your future-facing choices, the pearls of your former choices.

I hope you represent the trend of the future, where people grow pearls locally based on some universal, principles. Where the local farmers and finders get a fair percent of of the value of the pearls. Where pearl farmers and the end customers have the fewest possible connections between them.

[CLICLASP]

...............some oysters at the end of a line that had been there for a very long time. There was still a plastic Dymo marker on one of the strings that said April 20, 1997. .........

Congratulations for the joke.

Being more serious, what would happen if a nucleus would stay for a very long time, longer that usual ?
Did someone, make the experiment?
Very large natural pearls recorded stay a very long time in the mollusk they grow in ...
I would like very much to know about it.
THANKS.

[Nerida]

Ha, Josh, thank you for the intrigue. I could hear Sheri salivating all the way from down here, and no doubt her banker is happy that this was just a clever joke. Well done!!

I like what Anna proposes above... maybe 'make the experiment' indeed!!

[Josh]

Marianne, it starts with something more like: "it was a bright and sunny day, the trades winds blowing in a gentle yet sinister way..."

Caitlin, thank you for the amazing vote of confidence. See pm.

Anna and Nerida, if it was only that easy. Some time after a year in age, the longer pearls stay in the oyster the more they lose color, luster, shape, surface quality, etc. The vast majority would drop to a quality that wasn't sellable. It's a hard gamble in the best of times.

[Caitlin]

The loss of quality in pearls with increase in size, sounds like a moral principal or something. Is there a lesson to be learned there?

[Bodecia]

Hi All and Josh,

I only read the first 3 pages and just went on to page 4 so I have loads to read on this thread but ---- although it is amazing I cannot believe that Josh would kid us about this.

I won't believe it, April Fool's day or not. No way.

Dawn

[Josh]

Sorry Dawn, but I was just joshin'

[lisa c]

Josh - You Are Such A Guy. Good thing you're so d**n GOOD at it (where is that rolling-eye little guy????).

And now that you've tweaked our interest in it, only Caitlin gets to hear the story??? MAN. (where is that little shaking-head-ruefully icon, anyway...)