Some Baroque Pearl Pendants at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

Find a pearl while steaming clams?

Who in my family could forget the finding of a pearl when steaming clams on the Jersey shore?

No one will forget the jaw-dropping astonishment of my then 4 year old son, as my friend Linda exclaimed “Oh my Goodness, there’s a pearl!”

She then plucked a pearl from the steaming clams. (well of course she had merely thrown her pearl earring into the clams)

Even after another child commented that the pearl was “ear-ready” (as of course it had the post attached), the wonderment persisted.

Joking aside: Can one find pearls in other than oysters? Indeed one can, as technically all mollusks can make pearls.