Couple who found pearl inside clam, turned it into engagement ring discuss wedding journey Both Ken Steinkamp, 75, and Sandy Sikorski, 70, are thrilled to tie the knot at Ocean House in Rhode ...

Sandra “Sandy” Sikorski found a pearl in a plate of clams she was savoring with her fiance Ken Steinkamp at a Westerly restaurant. The couple made it the centerstone of her engagement ring.

The jeweler told her the 9.8-millimeter pearl comes from a mercenaria or hard clam. The jeweler wanted the couple to work with Marc Fishbone from Black Orchid Jewelers, whom Sikorski knew already.

At their favorite raw bar, Sandy discovered her clam had a pearl inside of it. Experts say the odds of that happening are 1 in 100,000. So they decided to turn the rare stone into an engagement ring.

Ken Steinkamp and Sandy Sikorski couple found a pearl in a clam while dining at a restaurant in 2021. Two years later they had the pearl made into a ring and now they're engaged. “This is a ...

The pearl and clam measured together. Courtesy Scott Overland “As we were paying, I showed the waitress and she was really excited,” Overland said, ...

July 27 (UPI) --A Rhode Island woman found a pearl in a clam she was served at a restaurant, and it ended up becoming her engagement ring.Sandy Sikorski and Ken Steinkamp said they were dining at ...

A Pennsylvania man was left as happy as a clam after finding a purple pearl inside a shellfish while dining in Delaware. Scott Overland, of Phoenixville, told NBC10 Philadelphia he was eating with ...

A rare purple pearl that a Chester County couple found in a clam while vacating in Rehoboth Beach in August has been appraised at a value of $4,071. The non-nacreous pearl was authenticated by the ...

Pearls do indeed grow in clams and several other mollusks. In this case, the clam was a northern quahog (Mercenaria mercenaria) grown by Cherrystone Aqua Farms in the Chesapeake Bay.

Scott Overland discovered a rare purple pearl potentially worth thousands in his clam appetizer at Salt Air restaurant in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware while vacationing with his family.