Shopping for the Best Akoya Pearls
The Best Akoya Pearls
The Japanese word Handama means “spherical flower” and describes the most perfect of Akoya pearls which are only of the highest possible value from any harvest of pearls in the region. These pearls are so sought after that prior to auction they are classed differently and set aside [...]
The Pearl-Rare and beautiful
Rare and Beautiful Pearls
The finest quality pearls have been highly valued as gemstones and objects of beauty for many centuries and word pearl has become associated with something rare.
Any shelled mollusk can, in nature produce some kind of “pearl” when an irritating microscopic object becomes embeded within the mollusk’s mantle folds, but none of these [...]
