Pearls, Bronze, Baroque/Potato Shape, 7x10mm on 16-inch Strands
SKU: GMA-302
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Description
- Bronze freshwater pearls, large baroque/potato shape
- 7x10mmmm on 16-inch strands
- These actually fall somewhere between bronze and grey peacock color
- Most gems are stones, but a few like Pearl, Amber, Jet, and Coral, are classified as Organic gems, meaning they came from living things.
- Pearls are formed inside bivalves (similar to oysters), which coat any foreign substance that gets inside their shell with a smooth layer of pearly nacre to reduce the irritation.
- The Chinese cultured some pearls in the 12th or 13th century, but the Japanese developed it into an industry in the 1890s, inserting mother-of-pearl beads as the basis of their cultured Pearls.