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		<title>June 2012 San Mateo Intergem show</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 1, 2, 3 at the San Mateo Event Center in San Mateo, CA Friday, 1 June 2012 noon to 6pm Sat. 2 June 2012 10am to 6pm Sunday 3 June 2012 11am to 5pm We are usually booth #1012 in the wholesale section&#8230; look forward to seeing you there. Best regards from Sarah &#38; Fuji.]]></description>
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		<title>June 2012 Santa Monica Intergem show</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 15-17 at Santa Monica Civic Centre (Main Street at Pico Blvd) Friday, 15 June 2012     noon to 6pm Sat, 16 June 2012           10am to 6pm Sun, 17 June 2012          11am to 5pm We are usually in booth #1001 in the wholesale section&#8230; look forward to seeing you there! Sarah, Fuji &#38; Lynne.]]></description>
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		<title>silver clasps</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pacific Pearls in Japan used silver clasps for over 99% of finished necklaces, including high end.  In the 1960&#8242;s and early 197o&#8217;s, this was inevitable because a luxury tax (50%) was levied on gold items in Japan&#8230; it could be refunded with evidence of export, but that was cumbersome at the time and required pasting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>alloy clasps</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of our ready-made necklaces contain clasps described as &#8220;alloy&#8221;.  This is because we believe the gold content to be lower than 585/ooo (14k), below which we understand it is  inappropriate to describe the clasp as &#8220;gold&#8221;. These clasps were purchased in pre-1970 Hong Kong, where false marking of gold was the rule.  Most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bead-Nucleated Chinese Fw Flame Pearls</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fuji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pearl Types & Info]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The most celebrated  pearl product in recent years, bead-nucleated Chinese freshwater pearls not only reach impressive size, but introduce some entirely unfamiliar new shapes. Their similarity to baroque pearls from ocean cultivation (nearly all of which have bead nuclei) is rarely close, since mussels have different growth patterns. At least two fundamentally different methods of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In-Body Bead-Nucleated Freshwater Pearls</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fuji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In-body bead nucleation has been done on a relatively small scale in China, probably since around 1990. We were surprised by the beauty and size of the pearls of this type that we have been able to acquire since late 2007. At 13-16mm diameter larger than anything else of this type, including Lake Biwa and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Non-Nucleated Chinese Freshwater Pearls</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fuji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are the classic freshwater pearls, in production since Hieriopsys cumingii sān jiǎo bèi 三角貝 mussels came into use in China during the 1980&#8242;s. Pearls of the first harvest tend to have plump or full shapes. Few are spherical, but the typical ovoid/drop and cushion/lentil shapes attest to the abundance of nacre that a mussel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Freshwater Keshi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 07:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fuji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Second harvest non-nucleated China freshwater pearls (aka Chinese fw keshi) These pearls differ from those that grow during a mussel&#8217;s youth, in that their shapes are less full &#8211; instead they have concavities, texture and altogether different character. The more mature mussels grow much more slowly than at the peak growth stage mostly utilized for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coin Pearls</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 07:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fuji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coin pearls &#8211; Chinese fw pearls with flat shell nuclei Coin pearls exhibit some of the hardest lustre seen in pearls, simply because a flatter area of nacre reflects light more intensely, like a mirror, rather than scattering it like a convex or irregular shape. However, the luster is rarely equally intense on both sides [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lightweight Coin Pearls</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fuji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lightweight coin pearls &#8211; Chinese fw pearls with flat non-shell nuclei Lightweight coin pearls are an innovation that reached the market in 2008. They are somewhat thicker than non-nucleated second harvest pearls, aka Chinese freshwater keshi, but otherwise resemble them in overall shape and surface texture. Sizes reaching over one inch (25.6mm) across, rare among [...]]]></description>
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