{"id":6855,"date":"2013-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/new-zealand-found-a-12mm-pearl\/"},"modified":"2013-01-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T23:00:00","slug":"new-zealand-found-a-12mm-pearl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/new-zealand-found-a-12mm-pearl\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand: found a 12mm pearl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest discoveries, as everyone knows, may happen in a casual and random way, and this founding, happenend in New Zealand, is no exception: <strong>Portia Himsel<\/strong>, a 6-years-old girl, was playing at the <strong>Banks Peninsual<\/strong> beach near the <strong>Birdings Flat<\/strong> when a <strong>big grey seashell<\/strong> captured her attention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/6198097.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2547\" title=\"6198097\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/6198097.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"346\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The girl, totally unconcious of the great discovery she was going to make, threw a small stone against the shell to see if it was going to move and, since it remained totally static, Portia <strong>opened it<\/strong> founding what for her was <strong>a mere marble<\/strong> to play with: the small object wasn&#8217;t a simple marble, it was infact <strong>one of the most precious pearl ever found in the New Zealand<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After this small &#8211; but great &#8211; discovery, the girl went straight to her parents, which couldn&#8217;t believe the object was really what it seemed, in other words a <strong>big natural pearl, almost perfectly round coming from a seashell<\/strong>; since Portia brought the pearl home to her parents and big sister a few years older, the pearl has been <strong>preserved and kept at its best to save all its natural beauty<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Considered that nobody of this family knew someone who had ever found a pearl, the parents consulted an expert in this field: <strong>Roger Beattie<\/strong>, of the <strong>Eyris Blue Pearls in Christchurch<\/strong>, has affirmed that &#8220;<strong>this might be the finding of the year<\/strong>&#8221; given the high quality of the pearl itself, never seen in any other specimen of New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the Himsel family hasn&#8217;t decided what to do with this treasure yet, the expert has supposed it might <strong>come from a New Zealand oyster<\/strong>, a good quality pearl <strong>classifiable as a AA<\/strong> (if we just think that the <strong>highest grade is AAA<\/strong>, its quality is truly remarkable).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest discoveries, as everyone knows, may happen in a casual and random way, and this founding, happenend in New Zealand, is no exception: Portia Himsel, a 6-years-old girl, was playing at the Banks Peninsual beach near the Birdings Flat when a big grey seashell captured her attention. The girl, totally unconcious of the great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[736],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pearls-and-curiosity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}