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Such an awesome trip!!!

That pastel is special!

They are baroque akoya pearls and the color does look natural.

It's a cultured abalone from Roger Beattie's farm in New Zealand. She was part of this trip back in 2007. I can't believe that was 17 years ago!

We only saw one like this. All the others we saw were still the traditional style.

They are growing out the pearls to full term in this method. There are two: direct into the shell as shown in their video, and released just above the shell. The shells are fed a blue-green algae. This method of farming is very expensive, but it produces no pollution, so there is no damage...

Guild Labs just put out this video showing snippets from our trip. I wasn't able to download it for some reason, so this is a screen recording. This one has some really good information on what is happening in the industry today.

I've just returned from two weeks in China and a week in Japan. I learned a lot about the current state of the FW industry and the beaded pearl situation. I'll either post about it here on PG, the blog or both. One of the companies I visited shot a video of our visit - I was travelling with...

I just did a Google search for Manea and another company is advertising on their name. Another scam company, maybe even the same one - . That means they are now advertising on Google too :( Razzmatazz

When I visited Vietnam I only saw Chinese freshwater pearls being sold at shops, and the sellers were almost all claiming the pearls were Vietnamese Akoya.

I think that's pretty good for what you have!

It was Barbara!

They look like Tahitians

This looks like an older strand of Chinese freshwater fireballs.

Beautiful!!!

It isn't mine. I just got to hold it :) Here is one that came across my desk in 2008. It has more of the horn shape too.

It's really a curiosity as you put it, or a collector's piece. It's thoroughly attached to the shell, and you can see through the layers that are already cracked and peeled, so there isn't a fine colorful piece that can be peeled out.

This is an interesting pearl. If it potentially has provenance, you might want to get it tested.

You got a steal!

These are baroque to semi-baroque akoya pearls. The color appears to be natural, but it's difficult to tell with certainty from the photos. If the color is natural, it's caused by organic material deposited on the nuclei during the recuperation stage after the grafting procedure. The color of...