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Most farmers that have farms in areas susceptible to theft will have searchlights, security stationed 24 hours (or at the very least at night after day workers have left) and also possibly cameras....

Pearls '94 was epic!

Given each stage of the process (and there are many), i can't imagine robotics ever being successfully used to undertake seeding/grafting. And if any part of the process WAS able to be potentially...

And yet many other farmers haven't grafted as they can't get the technicians to the farm during lock down and quite a number of farmers are trying to sell or close. They are having trouble selling...

I can possibly help. I'll send you an email to discuss..

I wonder how many on-line vendors buy finished pieces ex China (which are sold to them as SSP's or Tahitians) but really don't understand what they're buying or how to distinguish from the real deal....

yep, definitely gorgeous!!

Paspaley takes the cream of their crops for their own retail stores to protect their brand equity. I've been in and around the vaults and seen the wholesale stock and compared to what's on the...

wow...spectacular!

I'm a surfer and I regularly wear a pearl on leather a lot of the time. In and out of surf, water, shower, exercise etc. I haven't noticed this sort of wear although the drill holes do wear through...

Yep, that�s awesome!

Yep, that’s awesome!

I’d say 3/4 pearl. Grown like a mabe but with a higher profile insert, then filled and capped in the same way as a mabe.

Carving a nucleus to result in a customised pearl isn’t easy. Not impossible but not easy. Cultured pearl farms aren’t exactly factories where you can simply punch out a widget when required on...

They do not have a farm in Australia

Are you referring to the light brownish colour ring of material just down from the bale? If so, I think that may not be glue but organic matter as secreted via the mantle tissue during the culture...

Yep, I’m sold too!

I've actually got two copies but lucky to have one signed by one of the authors. Such a beautiful book and amazing to think it's over 100 years old:)

Awesome shot!

thanks Cathy!

Inside this book......58959

One of my most prized possessions of pearling memorabilia.58958

that's just brilliant!

There are some in India, I have a few clients interested in culturing pearls in their local species.

Can't put my finger on it but to me, there seems to be something about these pearls that suggests a different provenance...