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Palawan Princess - 5 Pound Pearl - Up for Auction 
Rare and Immense Natural Non-Nacreous Pearl—“The Palawan Princess”

Bonhams Natural History Auction

Sunday, 1PM, December 6, 2009 in Los Angeles
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At Victoria and Albert, Jewels Go High Tech 
LONDON: It could be defined as a new "crystal palace" - and what more fitting place to install it than in another monument to Queen Victoria's era, the ...

Bahrain's State-of-the-Art Pearl Lab Opens 
The new specialised centre is ranked among the best of its kind, Industry and Commerce Minister Dr Hassan Fakhro said.

He was speaking as he opened ...

Natural Pearls -- Better Investment than Gold  
Since time immemorial, pearls have been endowed with unparalleled elegance. Being cognizant of this, Christie’s calls forth one of the most significant ...

Jewelry Exhibits in Seoul, Korea 
World-renowned jewelry houses Van Cleef & Arpels and Tiffany & Co. are adding sparkle to Seoul this month, as their dazzling jewels are on display in two ...

Pearls: Gem with a past, a still lustrous future 
By Karla Klein Albertson

From The Inquirer Read entire article here.

Ah, pearls: lustrous to the eye, smooth on the skin, and very hard to resist....

Tiffany's Pearls 
Great exhibit in Cincinnati on Tiffany jewelry. Includes a gorgeous pearl and diamond necklace.

Here's a link to an article with some great pictures....

Brock Purple Pearl in the News 
Believe it or not....there are quite a number of purple pearls "out there," but few make the daily news. Leslie and George Brock's purple pearl that they ...

Stone Crab Pearl 
Bay City resident, Kathy Miller, has found what is believed to be a pearl in a stone crab claw.

Kathy says, “It’s about the size of an English pea. I’...

Large Imperfect Pearls Added to Vatican Cross  Not rated yet
VATICAN CITY — One of the gems of the Vatican's priceless religious art collection — a 6th century reliquary containing the purported fragments of the ...

Natural Pearls at Christie's Magnificent Jewel Sale  Not rated yet
Christie's said in a media release that natural pearls and jadeite are among additional strong draws for collectors in Asia. The Magnificent Jewels sale ...

Sotheby's Sale of Magnificent Jewels  Not rated yet
Salles’ collection also contains a wonderful selection of pearls, both natural and cultured, which she would wear in varying combinations, suggesting the ...

Cultured Conch Pearls  Not rated yet
FORT PIERCE — Two treasure Coast scientists have solved a mystery that for decades has been wrapped up in the coils of a conch shell.

With less than ...

Pearls for Pots & Pans  Not rated yet
St. Louis: All you have to do is donate dishes, pots, pans and other kitchenware to any area MERS/Goodwill location, as well as nine in southwest Illinois,...

Diamonds, Sapphires and Pearls Given Away!  Not rated yet
Diamonds, sapphires and pearls are being placed in paper bags in several towns near WYCKOFF, N.J-- and whoever finds the bags gets to keep them.

"That'...

Cultured Pearl With Gemstone Center  Not rated yet
Galatea of San Dimas, California has
introduced the Galatea Mercy Pearl(TM), a patented pearl (U.S. Patent
#7,062,940) that uses a center gemstone bead ...

Wales Investigates Pearl Culturing Possibilities  Not rated yet
THERE was a time when Welsh rivers were rich with natural pearls.But in recent years illegal poaching, pollution and river engineering have made the freshwater ...

Islamabad Exempts Pearls from Customs Duty  Not rated yet
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) on Wednesday announced exemption from customs duty for the import of natural pearls and precious stones or ...

Pearls for 30th Anniversary  Not rated yet
They're there if you look, around the necks of women thought to be among the world's most beautiful. Poets, philosophers and artists try to capture them ...

"Ocean of Pearls"   Not rated yet
The tense juxtaposition of ancient culture and modern world has offered ample subject matter to filmmakers the past couple of decades, and "Ocean of Pearls"...

Pearl’s Place Restaurant  Not rated yet
Whenever I see a restaurant advertising “down home southern cooking”, my mental flag immediately starts flapping in the wind. This is mainly because the ...

Fake Vietnamese Pearls  Not rated yet
Pearls are a favorite souvenir of visitors to the beautiful island of Phu Quoc in the far south of Vietnam. However, many are counterfeit, reports Tuoi ...

Can Perfume Harm Pearls?  Not rated yet
Most of us get dressed in a hurry…whether it's for work in the morning or for the evening affair that we thought we had set aside time for but, Alas!, we'...

Pearls Before Breakfast  Not rated yet
"He emerged from the metro at the L'Enfant Plaza station and positioned himself against a wall beside a trash basket. By most measures, he was nondescript:...

Jewelmer's New South Sea Pearl Collection  Not rated yet
It is definitely fitting that our country is called the “Pearl of the Orient Seas.” We are known worldwide for our pearls, more so the golden variety ...

Robert Wan's Pearl Museum  Not rated yet
We learned a great deal more about the Tahitian cultured pearl at the Robert Wan Pearl Museum. The exhibit includes displays of a pearl's development from ...

Pearls of Hope  Not rated yet
Have any stray pearls lying around in dresser drawers or jewelry boxes?

If so, you can donate them to Girls Night Out, the annual summer benefit that ...

People & Pearls  Not rated yet
People without pearls is well...like pearls without people. Famous & ordinary folks all like pearls.

Natural pearls are a true gift from nature  Not rated yet
The natural pearl has captivated generations like no other stone. It is an elegant and beautiful jewel on its own, a true gift from nature.

A natural ...

How to Travel with Pearls  Not rated yet
First, when you travel, you will want to use a first-class approach for pearl jewelry!

"This is not the type of jewelry that should be jumbled together ...

Lookforbeauty.com is a leading Online Store Selling Unique Pearl Jewelry  Not rated yet
Lookforbeauty.com came into existence in 2005, and since then has been enjoying their climb to prominence in the online jewelry game. Rapid growth has ...

Australian Pearling Research   Not rated yet
Professor Bernie Degnan, from the School of Biological Sciences, received $382,000 to understand and improve the quality of Australian South Sea pearls....

China is promising to be biggest consumer of jewelry  Not rated yet
It was revealed from Jewelry Shanghai 2009 on May 13 that, by 2020, China's jewelry industry can expect annual sales of 300 billion yuan and exports worth ...

Fiji a suitable destination for pearl farming  Not rated yet
Fiji is a suitable destination for pearl farming however it may get tougher to keep the business running.

Savusavu based J Hunter Pearls which has been ...

GIA to Offer Pearl Grading Lab at Hyderabad, India  Not rated yet
The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) announced that GIA India plans to offer a pearl grading lab class and a retail jewellery management (RJM) business ...

Estée Lauder Lauches Re-Nutriv Ultimate White Lifting Creme  Not rated yet
Crushed South Sea pearls – known to be the finest quality pearls produced from the world’s largest and rarest pearl oyster, pinctada maxima, found in the ...

Hyderabad City of Pearls  Not rated yet
Once retrieved from the fastness of the sea, pearls in those days reached India in two ways: from the Gulf of Mannar in Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka) via the ...

Advice on Re-Gifting Pearls  Not rated yet
I gave a pearl and gold necklace to a woman I was dating. She wore it frequently. A month later, she ended our relationship and insisted that I take the ...

Pearls Make the Rounds for Fall  Not rated yet
Karl Lagerfeld may have swapped Chanel’s traditional pearls for jade this season, but the lustrous gem showed up on plenty of other runways. Pearls were ...

New Akoya Pearl Farm in Australia  Not rated yet
Broken Bay, just north of Sydney, has a commercial history farming rock oysters, spanning more than a century.

But now four Sydney rock oyster growers ...

Pearls Sold at Auctions  Not rated yet
Auctions are becoming an increasingly popular way to buy and sell pearls, both natural and cultured...see past & present postings here.

Tiffany Abandons Iridesse Pearl-Jewelry Chain   Not rated yet
Tiffany & Co., the world’s second- largest luxury-jewelry retailer, has decided to shutter its five-year-old chain of Iridesse pearl-jewelry shops after ...

Saudis plan $200m pearl farm, fuel plant in Western Australia  Not rated yet
A Saudi Arabian company plans to invest $200 million in WA to create a huge pearl farm and biodiesel production plant off the coast at Port Hedland.

Fisheries ...

Discovering a Pearl of Great Price  Not rated yet
The parable in verses 45-46 is a story of a discovered pearl. Pearls were a new and valuable commodity in Jesus' day. Many men made it their ambition to ...

"Stringing Pearls" of Scriptiure Together  Not rated yet
If you and I are going to really understand the Apostolic Scripture, we must always be thinking in terms of the Hebrew Scripture.

One of the Hebraic ...

Pearls Hold Sentimental Value & Memories  Not rated yet
It's almost impossible to separate pearls from sentiment. Youth passes, friendships fade, love dies, but ask a woman about her pearls, and here comes the ...

One of the Most Celebrated Pearls  Not rated yet
If you like a good saga look no further then the one that began in 1513 when an African slave reportedly discovered a magnificent pearl while diving off ...

Sex, Death and Oysters: A Half-Shell Lover's World Tour   Not rated yet
Robb Walsh, the two-time James Beard Award-winning dining critic of the Houston Press, loves oysters. He even eats them for breakfast in a scrambled-egg ...

Broome, Australia Pearling History  Not rated yet
The first divers were Aborigines, many of whom were kidnapped, then brutally exploited and abused – forced to dive to dangerous depths. By the late 19th ...

'String of Pearls' has Strong Characters  Not rated yet
The idea of a single precious object being passed from one person to another on a quixotic journey follows a plot device as old as fairy tales. In "A String ...

Pearls shape tone of painting in newest art series piece  Not rated yet
Kate Scott's "Grandma's Pearls" -- an oil painting depicting a pair of hands, extending from the dark and holding a string of pearls spelling out "good ...

Gem grader GIA cuts jobs at Carlsbad headquarters  Not rated yet
The Gemological Institute of America, the nation's top rater of diamonds, has cut 117 jobs at its Carlsbad headquarters, citing the global recession that ...

Fave Fan Anecdotes: 'Pearls Before Swine' & 'Hi and Lois'  Not rated yet
STEPHAN PASTIS, creator, "Pearls Before Swine":

None of my strips ever received such a strong reaction as this one (about Israeli children killed in ...

Power Dressing Photographs at the Victoria & Albert Museum  Not rated yet
SINGAPORE — Standing tall in a corseted, flowing white gown with a sweeping train, Viscountess Hayashi was the epitome of Edwardian elegance when her photograph ...

Thieves Destroy rare Pearl Beds in Scotland  Not rated yet
Pearl thieves raiding Scotland's freshwater mussel beds are threatening to bring the endangered shellfish to the brink of extinction, police have warned....

Pearl farming in China loses its lustre as global prices dive  Not rated yet
Autumn is pearl harvest season and the roadsides around Shanxia Lake are heaped with mounds of mussels stripped of their bounty.

The pearl growers ...

Little, Round & Beautiful Pearls  Not rated yet
So, let’s face it. We can’t all be Carrie Bradshaw, lying about in our pajamas playing with a tummy-tickling string of Mikimoto pearls, waiting for the ...

Pearls of Mother   Not rated yet
Pearls of mother: Carol Powers sobs as she views her mother's pearls in the bedroom of her fire-gutted home in Oakridge Mobile Home Park, Los Angeles. Firefighter ...

Women Want Carats in Pearls & Diamonds  Not rated yet
Zeringue says women are wearing diamonds to the office and for everyday events, as well as for special occasions. “A lot of women think they can’t or shouldn’...

For views and pearls, cruise to the South Pacific   Not rated yet
On the little island, Taha’a, we visited a vanilla bean farm where many purchased bags of beans at a reasonable price. The island also had a black pearl ...

Bore No More  Not rated yet
For example, hanging from a black Orla Kiely dress at the front of the store is a necklace of gumball-size pearls so long that it hangs almost to the hem....

DPE and Gem-A collaborate to offer new course on natural pearls   Not rated yet
DUBAI: Here is some good news for all jewellery lovers, aspiring designers, gem traders and cultural tourists. The Gemological Association of Great Britain ...

How to Pick a Pearl  Not rated yet
Some of the most iconic women in fashion history have been a fan of pearls. Think Princess Diana, Jackie Kennedy, Coco Chanel, Princess Grace, Audrey Hepburn ...

Professional Get Up and Go Wardrobe  Not rated yet
Pearls.

"If in doubt, pearls always work," Maskiewicz says. To keep them from looking stuffy or stodgy, try layering jewelry pieces of different sizes ...

Scots pearl poachers face £1.3m fine over mussel deaths  Not rated yet
PEARL poachers who killed 130 protected mussels in a Scots river could be fined £1.3million if they're caught.

The possible penalty for each dead mussel ...

Molluscs and Biofuel Technology  Not rated yet
The National Institutes of Health has awarded $4 million to a group of Philippine and American scientists led by Oregon Health and Science University to ...

The Girl with the Pearls - a Painting  Not rated yet

The famous "Pignatelli pearls" were a wedding gift from her husband, Casimir Pignatelli, Comte d'Egmont, an immensely wealthy aristocrat, army general ...

India's Old Gems Get a Makeover  Not rated yet
New Delhi - At Bharany's, a family-run jewelry company in New Delhi's upscale Sunder Nagar neighborhood, a client came in recently with a 70-year-old turban ...

Female Pearl Farmer -- A Passion for Pearls  Not rated yet
The unadorned door of Suite E in a small, stark, garden office building in California gives nothing away. Neighboring offices house several construction ...

What does "Do Not Throw Your Pearls to Pigs" mean?  Not rated yet
When Jesus said, "Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs ," he was telling us to use discernment and judge the actions of evil ...

Overproduction takes shine off Chinese pearls  Not rated yet
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The prices of the lustrous strings of pearls that line display cases in Shanghai jewellery stores are more eye-catching than the glossy ...

Giant Sea Snail on Display in Birmingham, England  Not rated yet
What is normal in the South Seas, is rarely seen in England. Now folks are getting a chance to view a giant sea snail in Birmingham.


A sea snail ...

26 Pearls Found in One Oyster  Not rated yet
A LEBANESE woman working in a restaurant kitchen found 26 pearls in an oyster she was preparing for the table and will submit the find to the Guinness ...

EGL Authenticates One of World's Largest Pearls  Not rated yet
New York—A five-pound blister pearl found in the waters off the Philippines has been authenticated as one of the largest, most valuable pearls ever to ...

Pearl Passion  Not rated yet
WHEN it comes to pearls, few know these luminous, fascinating organic gems better than Rene Hodel.

The Swiss CEO and founder of a luxury pearl brand,...

Tennessee Pearls Still Command Attention  Not rated yet
The simple message on the sign outside Pardon's Jewelers on Broadway seems like a blast from the past.
"TENNESSEE PEARL RINGS PENDANTS EARRINGS," it says....

Antiques bargain hunter: Don Rodgers  Not rated yet
The price of pearls has fallen now they can be ‘grown’ in controlled conditions, so there are plenty of bargains out there.

THE beauty of pearls has ...

Perles de Tahiti Under New Management  Not rated yet
Martin Coeroli is leaving GIE Perles de Tahiti, the nonprofit public relations and economic interest group for the international promotion of Tahitian ...

Getting Top Dollar For Jewelry Requires Knowledge, Patience  Not rated yet
In hard economic times, people often resort to selling personal jewelry items, especially if they need cash in a hurry. While its never advantageous to ...

Quahog pearl ‘theoretically possible but extremely rare’  Not rated yet
TATAMAGOUCHE — It’s not unusual for Carmen Miller to grab a raw quahog fresh off the beach, shuck it open and eat it. But something out of the ordinary ...

Chunky and colored styles are pearl trends  Not rated yet
The chunky - and sometimes colored - pearls that Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain have been wearing on the campaign trail are not your grandmother's pearls....

New Hydrangea, 'Queen of Pearls'  Not rated yet
Green flowers don't do much for me. Before hellebore breeding began to produce colorful flowers, I didn't really like them. To be honest, I never considered ...

US Senate Bans Import of Burmese Gems   Not rated yet
NEW YORK — Exactly one week after the United States House of Representatives passed the Block Burmese Jade Act, the Senate on Tuesday unanimously approved ...

EU Cuts Tariff on Indian Gems, Jewels   Not rated yet
The European Union has reduced tariffs on gems and jewellery originating from India under its Generalised System of Preferences (GSP), which has been extended ...

US Congress Approves Legislation to Bar Myanmar Gems  Not rated yet
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US Congress on Tuesday sent legislation to President George W. Bush seeking to block import of gems from Myanmar, in a move to deprive ...

Cook Islands Discuss Future of Pearl Industry  Not rated yet
The future direction of the Cook Islands' revived pearl industry is to be defined at a two day national forum in Rarotonga.

Our reporter, Ulamila Wragg,...

China's Pearl Farms Prospering  Not rated yet





ZHUJI, China (Reuters Life!) - For decades, the clean waters of Zhuji have fed China's rise to the world's top producer of freshwater pearls ...

Bahrain Pearl Diving Day   Not rated yet
MUHARRAQ residents plan to take a sea trip down memory lane with a pearl diving expedition tomorrow. Four dhows and six small boats will sail from the ...

Phu Quoc, Vietnam, Pearls May Not Be What They Seem  Not rated yet
With a reputation for having some of the world’s finest pearls, Phu Quoc island has been flooded with fakes.


At the Dinh Cau night market, where ...

London Jewellery Week   Not rated yet
LONDON: Don't mention the R-word - unless it is about rich red rubies, royal refinement or rocks that rock. Recession may be looming in Britain, with unemployment ...

Michele Lowe’s Production "String of Pearls"  Not rated yet
Pearls are born out of irritants, things we’d rather do without. Some meddling molecule works its way into an oyster and makes a mess of things, and so ...

Are your pearls worth less than you think?  Not rated yet
Kari's Note:

This is an important consumer report I thought you should all see. It exposes the fact that some pearls are lower quality than portrayed ...

Human Teeth "Pearls"  Not rated yet
I was going through an old 1936 Muscatine Journal newspaper when I saw this article about human teeth pearls. It fascinated me so much that I did some ...

"Pearls Before Swine’ creator Stephan Pastis   Not rated yet
It has been almost six years since Stephan Pastis gave up practicing law to draw pigs and rats and dumb crocodiles in the comic strip “Pearls Before Swine....

Rare Sijna Pearl Part of Bahraini Collection  Not rated yet
A permanent display is now a part of the Bahrain National Museum collection. The display is part of a program designed to enlighten its people about Bahrain'...

Margarita Pearls  Not rated yet
Margarita pearls found in a sunken ship are being preserved

What's Next for the Margarita Pearls?  Not rated yet
Preliminary research on the pearls clearly suggests that this assemblage of 1622 pearls is one of the biggest and best preserved collections of its type ...

Pearls Hidden for Centuries  Not rated yet
Even by a conservative estimate, pearls hidden for centuries in the ocean in a small lead box have helped a Jacksonville native's $1 million discovery ...

Kuwaiti Pearl Divers Sing the Fidjeri   Not rated yet
The 18th Memorial Pearl Diving Trip held its traditional closing ceremony at the Kuwait Sports Sea Club (KSSC). The families of the young divers involved ...

Birthstones Gems of Power   Not rated yet
Did you know that the significance of birthstones is based on the months of the year? Provashis Ghosh enlightens us:

Long, long ago in the first century,...

Pearls--A Timeless Treasure  Not rated yet
When my editor suggested that I find an owner of a Mikimoto pearl necklace who has hung on to her precious possession for many years, I was curious to ...

Picking the Best Pearls  Not rated yet
IS there such a thing as the perfect pearl? Toshiyuki Kumai, managing director of Mikimoto South-East Asia, certainly thinks so.

Here, the House of ...

Mikimoto Pearl News  Not rated yet
Mikimoto continues to maintain high quality pearl business...read Mikimoto news here.

Elephant Tusk Pearls  Not rated yet
Genuine gajamuthu, or rare pearls found within elephant tusks are among the many treasures at the Hunupitiya Gangarama Temple.

Statues of the Buddha ...

Freshwater Pearl Jewelry Workshop at AMNH  Not rated yet
Freshwater pearls have been prized for thousands of years, and culturing has made them affordable and accessible. In this workshop, gemologist and historian ...

Punk Pearls  Not rated yet
DON’T pearls deserve something better? Despite numerous attempts over the years to disentangle them from their good-girl image, they have resisted. Even ...

Dubai Pearl News 
Dubai is pushing its way to the top of the pearl world..read the news here.

Did Julius Caesar Invade Britian Because of Pearls?  Not rated yet
HIstorians speculate that, Yes, pearls may have been one of his main reasons for invading Britain. The Scots resisted the Romans, however, and that's ...

Halstead Bead Business Development Grant   Not rated yet
Halstead Bead, Inc. is calling for entries to its third annual Business Development Grant competition for new designers entering the bridge jewelry trade....

String of Pearls Play  Not rated yet
A pearl necklace changes hands among a series of women in String of Pearls, Michele Lowe's play that opened off-Broadway in 2004 and is getting its San ...

CIBJO Pearl Commission Report  Not rated yet
Last week, CIBJO's Pearl Commission released its 2008 Pearl Commission Report to be read at the CIBJO 2008 Congress on April 14-16 at the Grossvenor House ...

Pearls Before Swine Comics  Not rated yet
Pearls Before Swine comics won the reader poll in North Caroline last week. The popular comic strip by Stephan Pastis will now be a regular part of the ...

Keep up to date on pearly news here with a few chosen articles summarized for future reference. Pearls are in the news more often than one would think....and since pearls are international, you never know where the latest updates will come from. Maybe there is a big jewelry auction in Switzerland or in Tahiti. Or maybe a famous person's wedding pearls were lost, like Queen Elizabeth's right before her wedding.

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