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2. Cultured freshwater pearls - Wikipedia

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   A bead crochet necklace made from crochet lace, sterling silver, and freshwater pearls. Cultured freshwater pearls are pearls that are farmed and created using freshwater mussels. These pearls are produced in Japan and the United States on a limited scale, but are now almost exclusively produced in China. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission ...

3. Cultured pearl - Wikipedia

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   The cultured pearls on the market today can be divided into two categories. The first category covers the beaded cultured pearls, including Akoya, South Sea, Tahiti, and the large, modern freshwater pearl, the Edison pearl. These pearls are gonad-grown, and usually one pearl is grown at a time. This limits the number of pearls at a harvest period.

4. Scottish jewellery - Wikipedia

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   The Victoria and Albert Museum has many examples of Scottish jewellery from the later half of the 19th century, both pebble styles and Celtic designs. [30] The modernist period of jewellery making began in Britain in the 1950s, inspired by the sleek, simple style of Scandinavian designs from earlier in the 20th century. [31]

5. Pearl - Wikipedia

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   Tahitian pearls, frequently referred to as black pearls, [19] are highly valued because of their rarity; the culturing process for them dictates a smaller volume output and they can never be mass-produced because, in common with most sea pearls, the oyster can only be nucleated with one pearl at a time, while freshwater mussels are capable of ...

6. Baroque pearl - Wikipedia

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   Pearl jewelry stores may bleach or dye freshwater cultured pearls after harvesting to enhance their color. The most valuable baroque pearls are the South Sea and the Tahitian pearls , which are produced by Pinctada margaritifera (black-lipped oysters ) and Pinctada maxima (gold-lipped and white-lipped oysters).

7. Keshi pearl - Wikipedia

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   Pearl importers in consumer countries, and the trade associations they constitute, have recommended limiting the use of the term keshi to ocean pearls, and banning its use for freshwater pearls. This is justified to some extent by the fact that ocean pearl keshi were known as a product for some years before their freshwater counterparts.