Recent content by antiguamarie

thanks - I think Pattye is right that complexity of color won't be found in a regular mabe. Here's a link to a paper written on the Eyris company in NZ, all you ever wanted to know about abalone pearl production, and more :-) http://www.australiangemmologist.com.au/abalone_pearls.pdf

another blue mabe question another blue mabe question thanks to all for the good advice and photos - following up on all and considering whether I can make that investment for the Last Oval Eyris.. meantime, on ebay, I'm finding a bunch of blue mabes that don't specify that they're abalone...

update from Eyris pearls on oval abalones update from Eyris pearls on oval abalones Hi, I heard directly from the folks at Eyris in NZ, who told me that they no longer produce ovals anymore (didn't say why but someone else said there were some production/quality issues) and only have one...

abalones abalones thanks very much for the responses -- I looked through the older link to the New Zealand trip and got a lot of information from that. From the photos it really does look like it could be an abalone -- I'd stumbled on that possibility just yesterday and even phoned their US...

oval blue mabe pearl? oval blue mabe pearl? Hi, I'm new to the forum, and know nothing about pearls -- hoping to get help from the experts. I saw and fell in love with a ring made with a beautiful "stone" which, based on the photo attached, a few jewelers have since told me is an oval blue...