This post is being made from the cheapest high speed connection I could get after getting off dial-up last November. Thought I would show you some "pink hearts" that I sold recently :-( fortunately to a bead lover. He put me in touch with an ebay site where they were selling a "pink heart" and they said the pink cores were the earliest versions of Cornaline D'Aleppo in around 1825-1836 if my memory serves me correctly. It also said the first truly white core wasn't produced until 1850. If this information isn't right I am sure someone in BCN will enlighten us. The picture, taken with my lowly 5.0 megapixel camera does not do the beads justice. I still recall their rich cranberry color.