Keywords: FMIB 47847 Salmon-Colored Pearl, weighing 14 12 pearl grains, lying loose where it was formed in a shell, from Linn Junction, Iowa The.jpeg check categories 21 August 2015 3 Salmon-Colored Pearl weighing 14 1/2 pearl grains lying loose where it was formed in a shell from Linn Junction Iowa The pearl is nearly hemispherical or 'button-shaped ' somewhat one sided but perfect above It occupied a depression at the posterior end of the right valve and had caused a marked outgrowth or protuberance of the other valve B-Valve with the pearl removed showing the depression where it had lain C-The pearl itself taken out D-Exterior view of the left valve showing the protuberance corresponding to the pearl Subject Pearls Pearl fisheries Freshwater mussels Tag Shellfish 1898 Cite book Fresh-Water Pearls and Pearl Fisheries of the United States Kunz George F Washington DC Government Printing Office 1898 Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission vol 17 1897 Plate IV-2 Creator George Frederick Kunz PD-UWASH-FMIB Institution University of Washington FMIB-source accession number 39833 39844 47847 Images from the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank to check George Frederick Kunz Pearls Oysters |