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Pearl Jewellery

Pearl jewellery is elegant and sophisticated and with also being the birthstone for June they symbolise a birth month too. There are several types of Pearls used in Pearl jewellery natural, cultured and synthetic. Synthetic pearl are made by machine and generally are dull to look at with little surface shine or lustre. Natural pearls are expensive and somewhat rare today and cultured pearls offer the same lustre and look at a fraction of the price. The difference being the foreign body that enters the Mollusc is placed in by human hand on cultured pearls.

A pearl starts of life as a foreign body, which enters a Mollusc, an Oyster or Mussel. This irritates the Mollusc then releasing nacre in a self-defence, which covers the intruder. This happens many times and within a couple of years, hopefully produces a natural or cultured pearl. Pearls are only formed in shinny shelled Mollusc’s and the nacre is the same as it uses to produce its own shell. Available in many colours white, cream, pink, grey and black. It’s very much personal preference on which colour you choose fot your pearl jewellery.

When valuing freshwater pearl jewellery several factors is taken into consideration on size, shape, lustre, colour and surface clarity. Measured in their size by diameter in millimetres. The larger the pearl the grater the value, on the condition the shape and colour is good. Smaller pearls don’t take so long to grow and therefore more affordable. Shapes available are round, near round that are ideal for gold pearl earrings. Oval and button shaped. Drop shaped which are ideal for pearl necklaces and baroque, which are irregular shaped pearls and becoming very popular for silver pearl bracelets.

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