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Yes, I am also curious how you can tell from the Xrays that they are cultured....?????

We all know natural pearls can look like Keshi......the thing is, I just can't see how these ones could be....they are from natural oysters on a remote natural reef...how could they be related to the pearl culturing process?....this, I guess is my main reason for investing to get them...

A few more images..... A few more images.....

Thank you very much, I shall email some images over to you ASAP.

Yup i think this was the first, darker pearl....same oyster.....Ill get a more high def image so we can look a little more closely. From my memory, the image on the sand shows where the pearl was sitting originally....but enclosed in the whitish tissue at the base.

Cool, ill see if I have some images of us actually opening the oyster before we pulled and prodded at the pearl. I seem to remember the pearls were sort of enclosed in tissue.....I think i exposed the pearl for the pictures above.

Ah, here they are. These were taken about 5 mins after we found the pearls on a nearby sandbank.

Yes, i think I do have a photo or two.....i'll see if i can get them and post them.

One more question.....looks like it will cost about 400 pounds to certify the 2 pearls with SSEF. Happy to do this if they are worth lots of money, any rough estimate of their value if keshi or natural??....i.e. is it worth the investment!?

Ok, great.....thanks for the advise Jeremy. I am presently in New Zealand but will surely be back in Europe sometime soon. I actually have a video clip of me finding the pearl in Aitutaki.....I wonder if this would be sufficient proof that they were found naturally?

Yes, but its not a 'real' mouth.....we used a dummy mouth...dentists idea! Anyway, Im gonna send these pearls off to get them evaluated. Where would be the best place to send them in your opinion?

I found these pearls in Aitutaki, Cook Islands......there are definitely no pearl farms there. How does one differentiate a keshi from a natural pearl...I had read that keshi's may have 'void's' internally?

Last year I sailed across the Pacific on a small yacht. We stopped at a small atoll in the Western Pacific and I found about 20 large oysters growing on the reef....the oysters were obviously growing naturally and were around 8-10 inches in diameter. To my utter surprise, I found 2 quite large...