There are really all kinds of wonders in this world. Do you believe it? A man in Delaware, USA spent 98 yuan to eat clam in a restaurant, but he actually ate a rare purple pearl. Three days later, someone was willing to bid 60,000 yuan to buy the pearl, but he refused to sell it.
Does this sound a bit incredible? However, this incident did happen in reality. What is going on? Let's take a look together!
Scott Overland, an American, lives in Delaware, USA, is a real estate agent. On August 9, 2022, Scott brought his wife and two children to the Salt Air Restaurant in Rehobot Beach, Delaware for dinner.
At that time, the waiter at the restaurant told Scott that their store had a recent event and had a clam appetizer set, which cost only $14 (equivalent to about RMB 98) to enjoy more food including clams, shrimp paste, parmesan cheese and jalapeño bell pepper pancakes.
Scott's family
At that time, Scott and his wife thought this set was quite cost-effective, so they ordered a clam appetizer set. However, after the set was delivered, Scott was very disappointed and almost planned to return the dishes because his wife Katie liked to eat bell peppers very much. The reason why she ordered this set was largely to be able to eat bell peppers.
Scott
But the jalapeño bell pepper pancakes sent to them did not have bell peppers. The owner said that bell pepper is just the name of pizza . In addition to the meaning of bell pepper, pepper can also be used as a name. The female chef who created this dish is called bell pepper (Pipe).
Scott was unhappy on the spot and said it wasn’t a fraud? I planned to have a big fight with the owner, but my wife Katie said forget it, it has nothing to do with the manager, they didn't understand it clearly. Since the wife and two sons didn't like to eat clams, almost all the clams in this appetizer were eaten by Scott alone.
When the meal between the two was about to end, Scott suddenly chewed something very hard. He originally thought it was a fragment of the clam shell, but when he spit it out, he found that it was a small purple bead. Scott never thought that this bead was actually a pearl, because in his impression, the pearl was generally white, and only oysters produced pearls.
So at first, he thought the bead was something the chef accidentally dropped in the dish, but in the end, when he and his wife ruled out the buttons, beads, candy, and found a groove that was stable with the purple beads on the inside of the clam shell, they finally confirmed that the purple bead did fall out of the clam.
Scott's family was very happy. After this incident spread in the restaurant, the customers, waiters and even the boss came to take a photo with Scott. Everyone wanted to see the true face of the pearl.
shop manager and Scott took a photo
On August 11, 2022, Scott brought this purple pearl to the School of Marine Biology at Delaware State University and found Professor John Hope of the department. After consultation, Professor John told Scott that the pearl he brought was a salt water droplet called Quahog from the east coast of the United States.
Scott
Quahog Pearl is a gem-level pearl produced from the east coast of the United States from North Rhode Island to South Florida. As we all know, purple pearls are the least valuable in China, because in China, most purple pearls are made of artificial cultivation and breeding. It is precisely because Chinese purple pearls are almost artificially cultivated in fresh water, so compared with seawater beads, their luster is relatively poor and much smaller in size. In addition, China's purple pearls are artificially produced, so there will be more or less problems in quality, such as insufficient roundness on the surface of the beads, or the color of the beads is dull, etc.
So people are usually not particularly optimistic about purple pearls. However, in the United States, purple pearls appear very precious. First of all, the purple pearls in the United States are sea water droplets, and they are extremely rare. In 2002, jeweler Alan Gorash, a jeweler in Newport, Rhode Island, unexpectedly discovered the later world-famous Golash Quahog pearl brooch - "Pearl of Venus". The purple pearl inlaid inside is exactly this kind of pearl.
Pearl of Venus
The Victorian brooch was found at that time. The Quahog pearl inlaid in it is 14 mm in diameter and weighs about 2.7 grams, equivalent to 13.5 carats. In 2005, the Golash Quahog pearl brooch was first publicly launched as an exhibition on the "Natural History of Pearls" special topic of American Museum of Natural History . At that time, the value of this pearl brooch was estimated by experts from between 250,000 and 1 million US dollars. You can imagine how high the price of Kwago Pearl was.
August 12, 2022, a jeweler from New York heard that Scott accidentally discovered the Quahog pearl, and flew from New York to Delaware , and offered a price of $8,400 (equivalent to about 60,000 yuan) to buy the purple pearl, but Scott directly refused after hearing the price.
Scott said that a precious Hogg pearl like this may not be able to have one in a million. He does not intend to sell it and may plan to serve his daughter as a dowry in the future. However, Scott also laughed and said that he would visit this restaurant frequently. If he is lucky, he might be able to eat another purple Hogg pearl, so that he can make up a pair of pearl earrings.
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