Keywords: FMIB 47852 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 A-Interior view of the right valve with the pearl in place Subject Pearls Pearl fisheries Freshwater mussels Tag Shellfish 1898 00 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-1 Creator George Frederick Kunz PD-UWASH-FMIB Institution University of Washington FMIB-source accession number 47852 Images from the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank to check George Frederick Kunz Pearls Oysters |