Have got some beautiful conch pearls for sale...all prices and sizes...any interested parties out there???

is there a wendy#7 and a wendy#10???
is this board big enough for two???
well i'll cut to the chase, pls start with prices. then we will know if we need to know the sizes
gay

Wendy,
My husband bought me a lovely conch pearl in San Pedro on our last trip. He had a local artist set it for me for my birthday. I just love it. I've gotten hundreds of compliments on it, and many have said they have never heard of them and were so impressed with it's uniqueness. My husband has a friend from Mexico who used to get them, and gave them away to his daughters. Now he wants some for his new wife. I've been considering getting a pair to make into earrings. Let me know the prices and I'll pass along the info to hubby and our Mexico friend.
Debbie

GGAAAALLLLLLL SSSTTOOOONNNNNEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!

Yes Wendy, I was given a conch pearl as a gift and unfortunaltly lost it. I would dearly love to replace it. Can you post info on sizes, prices and how to arrange payment, etc. Thanks, KB

hi all, it's really hard to give a price 'cause of different sizes, colors and quality. if you give me an ideal of what size, color, etc. and budget, can give a price. colors range from white, yellow, orange, pink and red. thanks for the inquiries, just need more info on what you would like!

I'm looking for a pink one - approx. 1 centemeter in diameter. Hope that helps.

SURE HELPS!!! You can e-mail me directly for more info and pics, prices, etc.
wendywatkins7@hotmail.com

THANKS!!!!

Wendy do you have pearls to sell regularly? Can I come pick my own when I am in San Pedro? How would I get hold of you? Thanks Indygal

hi indygal! e-mail me @ wendywatkins7@hotmail.com
i'm always here!!! you're very welcome to come pick out your own pearl, just e-mail me when and i'll give you tele. number and address. thanks!!!

Wendy where are you located?

I have a pink conch pearl... i bought in belize many moons ago when I still lived there...I paid 15.00 for it at the time...hmm I wonder how much they sell for now...

hi all, am located in san pedro town, belize....pearls range in price from $300 to $3000 now. depending on quality, color and size.
thanks for inquiring and e-mail me for more info.

Wendy if you read the message board more-you would know I own Coconet's -I have a friend who is leaving tomorrow who is interested in buying some pearls today

If she had time to read it all in 5 days she may have known that....she has just registered.

I'm sure when she is on and sees your post she will be greatful to give your friend a sale

NY gal as usual a highly informative post-before people join or try various cons they normally read the board first - or how did they find it?
P.S. Spelling-Grateful

Pedro, is Wendy7 who I think she is?

Oh, thank you for the spelling lesson, Peter

Hope your friend is able to purchase before leaving.

There are days I don't know what I would do without you

Short-possibly
NY gal you missed a "when" but at least this time your spelling was better.

:p

That is what we like to see a woman of few words.

And the rest of my sentence would be....
unable to put in print.
Men, you have to love them, why

hmmm - Peter - not going to win too many friends that way are we?

Short - which Wendy do you think it is?

who cares about what people think about me--I certainly do not

I sit here laughing WITH you, Peter. Chill

Get back to the pearls and Wendy.

NYgal, better laugh than cry.
Sweets; my Wendy, who else?

OK here come the clues I do not believe this person has a work permit or residency-

That's not my Wendy!

Are you sure and good night

Thou shall not cast your pearls before swine?

FYI: they is such a thing as fake conch pearls that are made out of the shell of the conch, so buyer beware. Now I am not suggesting that there is or ever has been anyone in Belize that would take advantage of a tourist, so do not infer anything into this comment that is not intended.

I searched for about 3 years 30 years ago to find four pearls the size and color I wanted to make ear rings, pendant and a ring. My wife thought they turned out beautiful, although I thought a couple of rods and pen international reels would have been more beautiful.

PS; here is a web page of some interest. I do not totally agree with eveything on it, but it has some good points. They are many other web pages you can look at for info on conch pearls. http://www.jewelrygenius.com/conchpearls.html

The laugh of the day goes to Chole.

Thanks Indy, I was laughing too.

Thou shall not cast your pearls before swine?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
nor thinket that thou canst make a silk purse out of its ear....

hmmm ....my conch pearl must be worth a small fortune...anyway those price are ridiculous...oysters pearls are worth more than a conch pearl...just find you some fishermen and you will get a good price on the conch pearls...they are pretty but that's about it.....

My dad has worked in a fishing cooperative in Belize for over 30 years and of all the conch brought in by the Belizean fishermen, he managed to save me 4 pearls - two small pink, one orangey, one large cream colored.
I have always wondered how many must be out there but my presumption was that there can't be many. Back in those days, the conch were plentiful, and huge. I can't see where there can be an abundance of them now, especially since the conch fishery is extremely stressed and the conch brought in by the fishermen are smaller and the catch is significantly less than "the old days."

I have heared that one out of every 10,000 conch have a pearl.

Well do not worry Pedro has 20 which means that everyone has to give me the money (address supplied for serious enquiries)

Just to let ya'll know...I am a resident! Hi, GailM, real conch pearls are more rare than oyster pearls, and yes, only about 1 in 10,000 conch have a pearl. Loads of fake ones on the market!!! Technically, it is not a pearl but a "calcium concretion". Took Sunday off so sorry about any replies. Okay, Peter???

Special this week is a butterscotch round pearl, 13.48 carats at $1,000 US. Serious inquiries can e-mail me! Later all.

Do you not have a shop? or do we have to go round a corner and look surreptiously?or would you like to come to Coconet's at 6.00pm tonight - please bring shop

no worries, coming to visit lunchtime...

Short you were correct in your assumptions (FC)
-we are having a drink.

Wendy7, I've met you a few days ago, and just want to say good luck!
By the way Pedro1, she lives here longer than you, and doesn't drink as much as you. Cheers!

I agree with you Micky Blue, by the way, are you big Micky from Kansas City? Do you remember me? Drop me an e-mail!
Short

No, I'm Mickey Blue Eyes from Belize.
Who are you? Wendy's husband?

Last clue about me; I'm not a man.
Look at your mailbox.
Short

Ah but she is only the secretary/messenger

Ah Pedro1, I see you woke up?
How do you feel? Do you have a hangover?
Little Big Mickey Blue

What do you mean I'm ONLY the sec/msngr????? Where did I meet you Mickey Blue Eyes?? Still looking for pearl buyers & sellers!!!!!

We've met @ Eldivino (great restaurant) south of town. I "love" conch pearls especially the rainbow… Do you still have that one?

gotcha! rainbow one sold, have cream and butterscotch 1cm and loads of small all color.

Read an interesting account by the head botanist from Jamaica Botanical Garden. Crown sent him to Belize in 1883 to report on economic crops. He mentioned that the Bahamas were exporting 3000.00 ( British sterling) per year of pearls from commom conch.

What a shame we have almost fished the conch out of all the caribbean!!!! Just since I've been here I have noticed a huge decrease in them. Guess that is why the pearls are so rare now!
What was considered a "common conch"??? The Queen Conch?????

Common and queen are different species or different local names for conch in Bahamas at that time.

The secret got out how delicious conch fritters are!!!
Is the off season really enough time to let a slow grower like a conch to re-establish itself???
Debbie

So what kind of conch is a common conch here???

Maybe conch season should be shorter here, what do ya'll think???

Enforcement of the ban on harvesting undersized conch would do the most good

Belize has several species of conchs, including the queen (the one you eat), the milk, hawk wing, and fighting. Off season, you may get a conch dish, but it is the horse conch (not a true conch).
There are lots of variations in the local naming of things, thus the reason for taxonomy (and I guess the reason I had to learn those damn genus and species names for all those marine creatures I studied).
As far as I know, there is not a common conch so this could have been a name used either by a certain region or may have been the name used prior to the proper classification of the conch.
When I was in the Bahamas a while back, I asked my aunt about the abundance of queen conchs and she said that they were so depleted that they now either harvest the trumpet triton (but I don't know if it makes a pearl) or they buy their conch from Belize!

I wish they wouldn't harvest the Trumpet Triton. It is one of the very few natural predators of the Crown of Thorns. The Crown of Thorns is a spiny starfish that gobbles up whole reefs and leaves a crumbling mess in their wake. There are not enough Trumpet Tritons to keep the CofT in check as it is.

Thanks for all the info...I agree...enforcing the harvesting of smaller conch would help greatly. There is also the helmet conch. One of the prettiest, I think, and I agree about the triton...leave it alone!

hmmmmmm. nobaddy pickin pon perdo1 on dis page.....HMMMMMM

No
But we will pick on you,you ragamuffin.
Get a haircut already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ah blew a dred in cancun ,,,,,,damn

i'd like to have a url to a big clear colored pic of a couch pearl

Moose, was that an intentional boo boo??? Couch pearl?? Or was it suppose to be conch pearl?

Anyway, try e-Bay, Item #2656187532
and www.beyars.com

BEAUTIFUL!!!

no-wendy7 thets wahn fkoup...

like ,, what size dem ting?[ tall ]

p.s. ty

Yer thinkin' of moose nougats

What's a moose nougat??? Got some pics of pearls if you e-mail me!!! wendywatkins7@hotmail.com

What size what ting??? Moose ting?

bump