[Sca-cooks] Re: dissolved pearls

[Leah A. Montgomery]

   What I was thinking was that either she or Pliny could have just told an
outright lie. No need to have a pearl in there at all, or even have it
dissolved if she did put a pearl in the glass. She could have just swallowed
the thing whole.



Leah A. Montgomery
SCA: Mahvash bint Wahib al Marakeshi called Samira
Head of Byat Al Hirrar
mog_bane at hotmail.com
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>Hmm. The Story I heard was she had a bet on over who could provide the
>most expensive meal. The 10M secester pearl put her meal over the top.
>On a side note- one aspect of pearl valuation is their Luster-i.e. shiny
>smoothness, and the etching caused by even a weak acid would likely
>greatly reduce that feature.(just guessing here...) Betsy

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