{"id":1336,"date":"2017-08-30T19:44:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T19:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2017-08-30T19:44:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T19:44:21","slug":"south-sea-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/pearlescence\/south-sea-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sea surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally we have to trim back an irregular top on a drop pearl so a finding will set better.<br \/>\nI was filing a pointy tip off a blue south sea pearl today when the nacre ran out and i could see what looked like compressed peat inside.<\/p>\n<p>Curious..of course.. I poked around inside.<\/p>\n<p>There was fibrous peat like stuff brown<\/p>\n<p>White waxy stuff in lumps.<\/p>\n<p>Flakes of thin plastic like cling film<\/p>\n<p>Flakes of plastic with fibres that looks like medical dressing tape<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nWhat was any of that doing inside a pearl?<br \/>\nIs this some sort of an attempt at a souffle south sea pearl?<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1337\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/south-sea.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1337\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1337\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/south-sea-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/south-sea-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/south-sea-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/south-sea-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/south-sea-624x624.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/south-sea.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not expecting any of this stuff inside a pearl<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ll take the pearl and its contents to Hong Kong with me and ask around, see if anyone has a clue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally we have to trim back an irregular top on a drop pearl so a finding will set better. I was filing a pointy tip off a blue south sea pearl today when the nacre ran out and i could see what looked like compressed peat inside. Curious..of course.. I poked around inside. There was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[302,304,305,303,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}