Natural Pearls & its types – Marine and Freshwater Pearl

Types of Natural pearls

Marine Pearls

Freshwater Pearls

The Colour Black Pearls range from Grey to Black and is Technically a South Sea Pearl Cultivated by special Variety of Pinctada Oyster.
These are Cultivated in the South Pacific.
Tahiti is the leading Producer of top Quality Cultured Pearls and in Other Islands of French Polynesia.

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These type of Pearls Come from Japan and China and are Cultured Pearls.
Akoya Pearls are lustrous, round, White Pearls and are more perfectly rounded than other Pearls also have a high lustre.

Abalone Pearls alike Other Pearls are not produced by Bivalve molluscs but by Cuvalve ear-shaped mollusc.
Abalone pearls display a lovely lustre and iridescence in comparison to other varieties of pearls.
Abalone pearls are true pearls and rare and beautiful gems.
The Colors of ablone pearl ranges from a metallic silvery colour to steel black, Cream, golden, pink and silvery green with pronounced highlights of pink or magenta.
The most highly priced and rarest Abalone pearls are peacock blue and green ones.
Abalone Pearls are mostly baroque in shape or shape like dongated spheres or like discs or horn or tooth-shaped.
Truly round or spherical round abalone pearls are virtually unknown.
Most of the above pearls are natural pearls and found in Pacific Coast of United States, Japan, New Zealand, Korea etc.

These are Cultured pearls produced by large seawater Oyster Pinctada maxima.
Most of these pearls are Cultivated in waters of Australia, Indonesia and the Philipines
The Species of mollusc producing south sea pearls is rare and supply of pearls in never Certain and these pearls are Expensive.
South sea pearls are Cultivated for the longer period and have much thicker nacre coatings than other pearls.
The rarest and most expensive Color in south sea pearls is Warren pinkish white but silvery white is more in demand and also very expensive.
South Sea Pearls are rare in fine qualities and more expensive than most other pearls & also have the longest life expectancy of any cultured pearl.

Once Burma was one of the Important producers of south sea pearl and pearls have exceptionally high “Silky lustre” in Comparison to other South Sea Pearls.

Due to Political Situation of Burma South Sea Peals are no more Cultivated in Burma.

The most famous freshwater pearl is the Biwa Pearl mussel(Hyriopsis Schlegel) and was native to Lake Biwa in Japan.
Biwa pearls were first freshwater non-nucleated Cultured pearls.

Another freshwater mussel from Japan and China is The Cockscomb pearl mussel(Cristaria plicata) and are naturally white but were dyed frequently.

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• The triangle Shell pearl mussel(Hypriopsis Cumingii) from China and is also formed in Japan.

• The Shell of this Oyster is much thick than Cockscomb and can produce nearly perfect round pearls with good lustre.

• The European freshwater pearls were produced by the European pearl oyster(margaritifera)

• This Species was native to

Europe

Part of North America

• These pearls are Smooth and Silvery white with good lustre.