Jewelry

[depglass]

So I'm wandering through Ebay looking at Honora keshi items and quite a few descriptions have the word reborn in them.  What does that mean, I've never heard it on the Honora presentations. 

[ennui]

It means they are second-generation. The pearls are harvested and the mussels returned to the water with their pearl sacs intact. They continue to deposit nacre resulting in another pearl.

Reborn is a term that should only be used for South Sea pearls, but it's spread to other types of pearl.

[millieshops]

@ennuiInteresting.  I didn't know that.  I just know that I like wearing the few keshi pieces I have, several from Honora as well as one from Tiffany and from neither company did I hear that word.  Sounds as if I shouldn't have, so that's good!

[ennui]

I've heard Joel and Ralph explain the process, but without using the word "reborn."

A pearl is removed from the mollusk, the mollusk is returned to the water, and it continues to produce nacre which forms into a keshi pearl. Keshi's tend to be small and oddly-shaped.

[esmeraldagooch]

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@depglass wrote:

So I'm wandering through Ebay looking at Honora keshi items and quite a few descriptions have the word reborn in them.  What does that mean, I've never heard it on the Honora presentations. 

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You see them online many times when they are talking about Edison pearls or bead nucleated freshwater pearls..   Many sellers on ebay are showing fireballs or non round freshwater pearls.

I actually have some pearls in a pearl I obtained from Pearl Paradise.  The are called inception pearls.   PP actually took a hammer to a pearl from the collection and smashed it to see what was inside.... A pearl.

[depglass]

Fireballs, inception pearls, looks like I have some studying to do.  Fun studying at that.  And whose name do I see, Ennui, is that you?  Welcome back. 

[ennui]

Pearl cultivation continues to evolve. I'm not sure how I feel about it.

And,  yes, c'est moi. 

[esmeraldagooch]

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@depglass wrote:

Fireballs, inception pearls, looks like I have some studying to do.  Fun studying at that.  And whose name do I see, Ennui, is that you?  Welcome back. 

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Here are a few pendants owned by a friend  Bead nucleated freshwaters but the extra nacre flairs out so it appears to look like a comet or fireball.  They were attempting to make completely round pearls, so these are byproducts of failed experiments..  Women love them, farmers who thought they were culls with no market, were thrilled.

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[esmeraldagooch]

Inception pearls,   Pearls with pearls inside.

[esmeraldagooch]

These are souffle`pearls.  Starting out as a ball of mud implanted inside the mullusk.  They are hollow pearls and can be used as a pearls are or sliced in half, carved out and cleaned to produce geode styles.