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Kaptainess — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:06:40 GMT

<br />There was this shop in Cape May NJ where you could select a clam and they would dig out a pearl. They were all tiny, I watched other customers's finds and decided not to get one. What would I do with a pearl anyway

Original Blog Entry: Man Finds Rare Purple Pearl In Clam

truesee — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:41:20 GMT

Jul 20, 2009 11:00 pm US/Eastern

Ocean County Man Finds Purple Pearl

Reporting

Anne Marie Green

MYSTIC ISLAND, N.J. (CBS 3)

An Ocean County man turned his craving for some fresh clams into a possible small fortune.

Ed Seitzy asked his clam-digging neighbor, Joey, last Thursday if he could have a few clams for dinner.

I opened it and it had this funny looking thing in it. I sort of knew what it was, but it sort of looked like dirt. I hit it and thought it was a pearl, said Seitzy.

What Ed found wasn't just any pearl, it was a purple one.

When Ed learned the odds of finding a purple pearl, one in two million, he decided to call a jeweler.

The reaction was pure disbelief because nobody had heard of it before. Several jewelers didn't know what we were talking about, said Seitzy.

In January, a Florida couple found a smaller purple pearl and netted $25,000. But Ed has heard about even bigger payouts.

A million dollars maybe.

Ed is going to get the pearl appraised and said if the pearl is worth a million, he will give Joey his boat.

After all, Ed may be upgrading.

An Ocean County man turned his craving for some fresh clams into a possible small fortune.

LINK TO VIDEO:

http://cbs3.com/local/Ocean.County.pearl.2.1093877.html

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