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Metal implement for seeding pearls
Metal implement for seeding pearls

Metal implement for seeding pearls

Date1950-1990
Object number00042902
NamePearl seeding implement
MediumMetal
DimensionsOverall: 2 x 237 x 3 mm, 168.51 g
ClassificationsTools and equipment
Credit LineANMM Collection Gift from the George Family and Adrian Jackson
HistoryA plush lined display case containing assorted nuclei, half pearls, including 9 cruciform blisters, and assorted implements used for seeding and measuring pearls - no. 3 may be a William Saville-Kent wire. The tools have not been used, need to be bent up to shape - one blister has a nut and bolt - similar to S-K technique of attaching nucleus - some sphericals gone wrong, some good samples, a box of delaminated ones - No. 12 is possibly unique, P. penguin. Information given by Nick George.