Nature is capable of donating magnificent creations to human beings, natural masterpieces like pearls born from a simple mussel: the Gogibus pearl is one of this extraordinary specimen. Weighting 126 carats, this pear-shaped pearl belonged to a merchant, Francois Gogibus native of Calais, which brought the from India to Europe in 1620; this merchant sold […]
Nature is able to create wonderful things, which men have often the privilege to enjoy: the creation of a pearl is an extraordinary thing itself, but sometimes nature surpasses herself and gives birth to the most excellent examples of beauty and value. The famous Pellegrina pearl, not to be confused with the Peregrine one, is […]
Pearls are precious gems of high value and, since the birth of particular methods of imitations, they have usually been replaced by plausible copies and posed as true ones. To establish if your purchase lead you to have natural pearls, there are several practical tests to do without the actual need of specific instruments: – […]
Pearls, like all the natural and precious gems, need particular care, to be given through the time in order to preserve their beauty as long as possible. Pearls are soft and tend to absorb skin’s oils and acids of the wearer, blowing out all the luster and slowly changing their form until they gain an […]
With the spread of natural pearls, in 17th century a clever rosary-bead craftman found by accident the method to craft imitations of this precious natural gem with a pearlescent mixture, now famous as “orient essence“. Even if nowadays this special mixture is used to craft high quality imitations, like the Majorca pearls, there are several […]
Once they have been harvested, pearls have to be cleaned and washed in order to take away all the organic dirt and brackish smell with barrels full of grains of salt, and this process has to be followed really carefully in order to prevent the cracking or flaking of the nacre. But, beside this natural […]
These regular and perfect pearls, available in commerce, are the result of a careful selection, ruled by rigid parameters that have the primary purpose of launching only the best pearls in the luxury market. To assure the sublime quality, the Japan Pearl Exporters’ Association established a new selection method applicable on all the peals, and […]
Big, round shaped, white with a particular opalescence. South Sea pearls, or “australian” ones, are the rarest and biggest in circulation, produced by the biggest pearl oysters in the world, the Pinctada Maxima. During the 19th century, thanks to the discovery of a very prolific mussels’ bed, these “queens of pearls” became really popular in […]
Since their discovery, pearls have never gone out of fashion, going unharmed through every time and style and adorning neck and clothes of many famous historical characters, like Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, Empress Eugenia and Margherita of Savoia, the “queen of pearls“. But their true consecration came with Coco Chanel, creator of contemporary fashion, saying that […]
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