ISSAQUAH, Wash. – A woman bit down on a rare pearl while eating a meal of clams and other seafood at an Italian restaurant in Washington state.
KOMO-TV reports Lindsay Hasz and her husband Chris were eating at Montalcino Ristorante Italiano in Issaquah recently when she bit into something hard in her entree.
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Hasz says she wasn’t sure what it was but put it in her pocket and went home to do research.
She took it to a gemologist, who determined it was a Quahog purple pearl worth about $600.
Ted Irwin of Northwest Geological Laboratory says the find is rare, with only one in a couple million being of gem quality.
Montalcino owner Cindy Nardone says she’s happy for Hasz.
Hasz says she may have the pearl made into a necklace.
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