2021 – Agate and Chalcedony 2019 – Sixteenth
Pearl
Stuart Overlin, Editor
Photographs by Mia Dixon and Robert Weldon
Specifications: 8.25" x 10.75", digital press, full color, soft cover, perfect binding. 108 pp., color photographs, maps and illustrations.
Publication Date: April 27, 2019
- Program 2
- Dedication and Acknowledgments 3
- Speaker and Author Biographies 4
- Program Abstracts 6
- Douglas McLaurin-Moreno
Sea of Cortez Pearls - A Historical Overview 8 - Blaire Beavers
A History of Pearls 30 - Betty Sue King
Evolution of the Pearl Goddess 38 - Elisabeth Strack
An Update on Pearl Localities 52 - William Larson
Collecting Natural Uncultured Pearls, Mostly from the Baja Peninsula 68 - Chunhui Zhou
A Brief History of Pearl Testing Through Gems & Gemology 74 - Stuart Robertson
Pearls: Their Market and Price Trends 84 - Hisano Shepherd
Reinventing the Pearl 88 - Dona M. Dirlam and Robert Weldon
Pearl History
From Splendour & Science of Pearls (2013) 94 - Pearl Bibliography
From Splendour & Science of Pearls (2013) 106
