Gold South Sea pearl necklace
Part Two – South Sea Pearls
For those people who know about pearls, you also know that South Sea pearls are really expensive. A graduated 16″ White South Sea pearl on Amazon.com is going for $4,900.00(Ouch). Why so expensive?
Cultured South Sea pearls are known for their larger size, smoothness and roundness are produced by one of the largest pearl cultivating oysters(Pinctada Maxima). Australia, Myanmar (Burma), Papua New Guinea, Philippines and Indonesia are the primary geographic regions for the cultivation of South Sea pearls. The larger the pearl that is produced by an oyster, the more valuable and more expensive. For those farmers that cultivate pearls, it is extremely rare for their entire crop to produce perfectly round pearls. Because the Pinctada Maxima oyster lives and grows its pearls in the wild, its hard to produce in larger quantity, which makes it rare. Once a mother of pearl bead is implanted into the shell of the oyster, the oyster continues to see this implant as a foreign object, that with the oysters environment makes it hard for the oyster to produce perfectly round pearl.
There are white, black, gold, silver white, cream and off white South Sea pearls. With their roundness, smoothness, high luster, the South Sea pearls is a beauty to behold.
Myth
Pearls were once viewed by ancient Arab legends to be the tears of the gods.
The Greeks believed that women that wore pearls would have marital bliss and it will also prevent newlywed women from crying.
