Show Us Your Pearls In Action!!!

SteveM said:
One more return to keshis. Following the SOC live stream in which I missed a keshi bracelet lot another lot was offered that I stupidly passed on as I had bracelet on the brain. The pearls were beautifully formed. Would it make commercial sense for SOC to increasingly specialize in keshi and decrease dependence on the beads? After all it isn't a mass market product.
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I wanted to move a part of the production to keshi pearls...but well, the idea never caught on with my partners. If I ever have a chance to do it all over again: I probably would have a farm that would produce 50% keshi, 50% beaded and 100% Mabe (all pearl oysters would also have Mabe inserts) so at the time of harvest I would always have something on the table.
But seems far-fetched now, almost a work of fiction.
 
Wow, lary007, that’s such a wonderful assortment of pearls you have put together! I love your new golden pendant!

The keshi discussion over the last couple days has been very fascinating to read! There is always so much to learn here at Pearl-Guide!

I’m having dinner with my family tonight to celebrate my graduation, and I felt that the occasion called for my fancy pearls. I’m wearing my graduation gift to myself, which is a strand of golden south sea pearls from JNB. Paired with golden SS drop earrings, also from JNB.
 

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Pearls&Pugs said:
Wow, lary007, that’s such a wonderful assortment of pearls you have put together! I love your new golden pendant!

The keshi discussion over the last couple days has been very fascinating to read! There is always so much to learn here at Pearl-Guide!

I’m having dinner with my family tonight to celebrate my graduation, and I felt that the occasion called for my fancy pearls. I’m wearing my graduation gift to myself, which is a strand of golden south sea pearls from JNB. Paired with golden SS drop earrings, also from JNB.
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Beautiful! And congratulations on your graduation!
 
Yes 2thdktr ... I was surprised by the use of Keshi instead of baroque. If it's nucleated then as I've always understood then it can't be Keshi.
In the same vein, I've seen a lot of pearls trecently hat are being described as Keshi that are small oval and semi round very symmetrical in shape ... I think I'd want an Xray.
 
Pearls&Pugs said:
Wow, lary007, that’s such a wonderful assortment of pearls you have put together! I love your new golden pendant!

The keshi discussion over the last couple days has been very fascinating to read! There is always so much to learn here at Pearl-Guide!

I’m having dinner with my family tonight to celebrate my graduation, and I felt that the occasion called for my fancy pearls. I’m wearing my graduation gift to myself, which is a strand of golden south sea pearls from JNB. Paired with golden SS drop earrings, also from JNB.
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pearls&pugs: Wow, those goldens are gorgeous.
 
Katbran said:
Yes 2thdktr ... I was surprised by the use of Keshi instead of baroque. If it's nucleated then as I've always understood then it can't be Keshi.
In the same vein, I've seen a lot of pearls trecently hat are being described as Keshi that are small oval and semi round very symmetrical in shape ... I think I'd want an Xray.
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Certainly, any baroques trying to pass as keshis may be discovered by keeping on good terms with your dentist and his X-Ray equipment. The greater challenge is distinguishing a tissue-nucleated keshi from a natural.

Nucleation refers to the insertion of mantle tissue. If a bead is inserted without the accompanying tissue, the mollusk is not nucleated.

Just to sum up what we've been discussing above:

We have seen the CIBJO definition of keshi as a saltwater pearl produced without a bead, either intentionally or unintentionally. Grafting techniques developed in China in the 1990s (I remember Jeremy telling me "It's all in the wrist") to create rounder pearls without a bead began to be applied surreptiously to saltwater oysters with the specific aim of natural certification. Thousands were likely certified. The labs reacted to this sudden inundation of 'naturals' by raising their technological game with CAT scanning (Microtomography). THIS 2010 paper describes how the world of pearls was saved from the scammers. But the grafting techniques applied happily resulted in a greatly expanded and more predictable Keshi category. I am unaware if historical statistics exist for Keshi production and sales but they would be interesting to see.
 
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I love the new Takahashi pendants, BWeaves and lary007! Really charming, beautiful and wearable.

Congratulations Pearls&Pugs! The goldens are gorgeous for celebrating!

Well, I haven’t been wearing pearls because I have been hanging out with a different social circle compulsively playing pickleball everyday.:cool: I did go to a birthday party last weekend for a friend who turned 95! And he is doing fantastic to boot. So, my only pearls for the week- Tourmaline wheel and keshi earrings from Kojima, a tin-cup I made with deep lavender pearls from a PP HK live event, and a tiny keshi chain I made.
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I forgot to photograph my last few days of pearls.

My best white pearls for Father's Day. Long South Sea, akoya, and freshwater tin-cup from Kojima. Natural white Hanadama rope from PP. The Queen drop shaped pendant from Kojima. My refurbished Mikimoto yellow gold huggie earrings. I wore white linen as a backdrop.

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Yesterday I was feeling more colorful. From Kojima, the Devine Sarah pendant, and Kasumi pearl with ruby bail worn on my diamond hoop earring. Hisano's favorite Kasumi pearl (from the PP Kasumi Live Event) with diamond bail worn on the other earring.

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Today I'm wearing The Swan from Pacific Pearls. I keep wanting to call these Kojima earrings my coral earrings, because of the shape of the drops, even though there is no coral in them. They look great with The Swan. This might be their best outing yet.

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jeg said:
I love the new Takahashi pendants, BWeaves and lary007! Really charming, beautiful and wearable.

Congratulations Pearls&Pugs! The goldens are gorgeous for celebrating!

Well, I haven’t been wearing pearls because I have been hanging out with a different social circle compulsively playing pickleball everyday.:cool: I did go to a birthday party last weekend for a friend who turned 95! And he is doing fantastic to boot. So, my only pearls for the week- Tourmaline wheel and keshi earrings from Kojima, a tin-cup I made with deep lavender pearls from a PP HK live event, and a tiny keshi chain I made.
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I love the lavendar pearls jeg! I need some tin cups. It's been so hot here lately it's hard to wear pearl strands.
 
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