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Looks like we're in business! On both the tin cup and rope from Kojima, they really hold one's attention.

Jeg, always beautiful choices, beautifully worn. Light bulb moment here. My wife has two pair of Cook Islands keshi studs, one a little greener than the other but otherwise interchangable. No need for two pair, so what if we take one pair and dangle a couple of SOC keshi from each? Will bring...

I used skills honed over the years by searching for the perfect shave/travel kit to zero in on this bag after returning a couple of others. Works well for what we intend to bring, including loose pearls and mabes, but quite limited in terms of multiple strands. Really compact. But I had to...

PIECES! I just re-watched that live stream with Alex Collins. He commented upon query from Jeremy that the two Poe Pipi lots were collected over a period of about six months. It should be clear collection and harvest are two different things. I'm attaching the text of a 1995 article from Pearl...

The above lot, which was saved from its alternative fate in Hong Kong, has been sorted in preparation for design work. That perfect golden drop is 7mm x 8.7mm. It looked smaller in the live stream, so a nice surprise!

OK, will give that explanation a try! English can be deceptively logical.

It "grows" on you! Taking this opportunity to present a dilemma in our multi-lingual household: Why does "vegetables" only have 3 syllables when "vegetarian" has 5?

Definitely qualifies as practical! Thanks.

Almudena and I look forward to meeting everyone! Tips please: Just went on Amazon to see about a roll/bag to carry a few of our treasures safely and comfortably. Too many choices! Any practical recommendations?

JEG! "Ask and thou shalt receive." How impressive! Those keshis do not disappoint. The shorter strand of larger pearls calls to mind our natural Pteria (Ptimes Ptwo) strand we will be bringing to Pearls by the Bay. The purple round begs removal from its net from time to time for a little...

Meant to ask if anyone here has acquired Kasumi Keshi over the years that we could see? There were none on offer yesterday but Jeremy confirmed they exist.

Those SOCs are intensely striking and the setting is appropriate. Eternal and Harmony will definitely be included among the final options! Many thanks!

They do look great, and the presence of ripples, swirls and hammering obviously requires a minimum nacre thickness. Yesterday no one asked about the future at Seiwa Pearl, whether children are involved, etc. but it seems Sarah is rightfully hedging her bets. If indeed there are ripple farmers in...

Which is the correct spelling (Hernán Cortés), although SOC pearls would still be SOC pearls.

I suppose no one would propose that the quality is the same, albeit the difference would be largely "under the hood" with the four-year nacre growth. Unless the Chinese are doing that too...

Aragonite present would demand SEM/TEM analysis by a top shell microstructure authority. There would be no better choice than Professor Antonio Checa in Granada.

Just imagine how a perfectly round, lustrous ammolite pearl might appear (akoya appendage suggested by AI). Talk about color...

The thought occurred that the discovery of a fossilized Ammonite pearl should be more anticipated than from a modern Nautilus shell, as the pearl would not yet have been ejected from the mantle and lost to sea. Advise those folks in Alberta to be on the lookout!

Look forward to images! Definitely see the replication, as described by House, regularly-spaced blisters from the successive septal growth cycles. Sort of like volcano island chains (Hawai'i). Evidence of loose fossilized pearls would be earth-shaking. But assuming what you have seen is...

Reviewing our pearl acquisitions in advance of next month, I realized we still had an interesting loose pearl stash, including two 3.1 gram lots of SOC keshis that Douglas brought to that 2009 Ruckus. I got them out together with some loose freeform abs, a keshi from Josh at Kamoka, and even a...