Pearls, Silver, Baroque Shape 6x8mm with One Flat Side on 16-inch Strands
SKU: GMA-317
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Description
- Silver pearls in a baroque shape with one flat side. These would be "buttons" if the hole were drilled through the thin dimension. Only moderately irregular with a soft silver color and slightly domed on one side.
- 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 eliminate the irritation and this coating of grows over time increasing the pearl's luster. The color is influenced by minerals in the water.
- 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.