This interesting article appeared in The Standard-Times. Thought it
would be a fun read for pearl lovers. Enjoy!
WESTPORT--More than oysters have come up from the bottom of the
Westport River in the scissors-like 11-foot tongs Jim Pierce plies to
make his living.
The most memorable retrieval for Mr. Pierce was a pearl that his wife,
Virginia, keeps stored safely away.
He topped the pearl, however, when he retrieved in the twin tong
baskets a ruby ring attached to an oyster shell. Finding something to
put in a ring -- a pearl -- is one thing, but find an entire ring with
a stone in it, well, that's something, he said.
Another time, Mr. Pierce pulled up an empty bottle containing an
oyster growing inside it.
There have been dozens of curious finds that oysters have attached to
over the 76 years for the oysterman: cannon balls, flat irons, knives
and a Titlest golf ball.
Now, if he found a Tiffany diamond, that would be something.
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