Recent content by pearlharbourer

I was disappointed compared to last year's PP sale when I bought two stunning regular and longer length Tahitian tin cup necklaces at great prices in white and rose gold. I hoped to find more interesting tin cup designs this year but the sale has only regular styles, unless I missed out on...

My first SS pendant came from Rutherford years ago. Unfortunately I have found their customer service a bit "uppity" recently and since discovering the variety and affordable prices of the online pearl world I wouldn't return to bricks and mortar retailers again. Unless I had a lot of money to...

I'm a consumer and I wouldn't trust the ordinary mail system, nor would I rely on a seller or PayPal to help me out if something went missing. So I always pay for Fed Ex or insurance and tracking, particularly when the item is from overseas. It's better to pay for extra coverage and not use...

I've never tried to buy pearls from eBay but some years ago I was a regular buyer of branded clothing from the US (it was a lot cheaper than in Australia) but I became tired of being overcharged on shipping (some sellers called it "self-insurance") and a few times I received and returned items...

Hello Jeremy, thanks for the generous offer for Pearl Guide Forum members. Please add "pearlharbourer" to your list. Thanks again for this great opportunity.

Hi BAS, yes, it would be great to have width and length measurements for both pearls when you get the chance. Thanks for the offer. Actually, when I say "width" I mean how wide the spherical parts of the pearls are.

BAS, what a great collection you have! I like your most spectacular fireball the best, but I can see how it might be unsuitable for everyday wear if you're running around a lot. How big is this one, as well as your "goddess" pendant? The "goddess" looks good for daily wear. And can you...

Bump... I have been admiring everyone's lovely fireballs and I'm considering buying one myself as a big pendant. What colours, shapes and sizes are the most versatile? I would like it to be bigger than 16-17mm, because this is the size of my current biggest pendant, a WSS baroque circle drop...

What size are they? And are they buttons? They do look lovely. On a related WSS note, did anyone buy from PP's October WSS sale? I assumed it was less popular than recent monthly sales because I hadn't seen any threads about people's purchases.

Does anyone know what the next PP monthly special will be? The GSS all looked very lovely, but a strand would have been out of my price range unfortunately!

Amazing gold pearls. My only disappointment is no September "Connoisseur" sale which I've heard so much about from previous years!

Thanks everyone for posting your tin cup photos, it will help me make a more informed choice when I decide on what I would like to get made.

Thanks for the suggestion. What if I had five or seven matching pearls at the front and sides of the necklace, but none at the back of the neck? Would this help keep the necklace better positioned, or not as well as a pendant pearl in the centre?

This necklace in the 1996 Rene Russo/Kevin Costner movie "Tin Cup" started the trend:

I hope to get a basic tin cup made one day, maybe with an odd number of pearls like 7, on an 18-inch chain. What is the recommended size range for the pearls? I would like rounds, off-rounds, drops or baroques, or a mixture of these shapes, as long as each pearl complemented one another...