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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 2.7 carats
Shape: Perfect Button
Size: 7x7x6.5mm
Color: Dark Purple
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Price: $1,764

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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 7.84 carat
Shape: button
Size: 10.76 x10.34 x 9.26mm
Color: : pinkish purple, natural
Pearl has cracks which mar its appearance but not its integrity.

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Price: $5,746
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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 0.94 carats
Shape: Button
Size: 5 x 4mm
Color: Cream
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Price: $520

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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 4.57 carats
Shape: Near Round
Size: 8x9mm
Color: Dark purple that fades to lavender
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Price: $3,840
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Quahog Pearl

Weight: App 3 carats
Shape: Round
Size: 7.5 mm
Color: Purple
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Price: Price: $2,830

Large Quahog Pearl
Large Quahog Pearl


Color: Deep Purple
Shape: Button
Weight: 13.78 cts
Size: 14.2 mm diameter
9.1 mm height

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Quahog Pearl

Carat Weight: 0.565 carats
Shape: Button
Size: 4 x 3mm
Color: Dark Purple
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Price: $283

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Quahog Pearl

Carat Weight: 3.55 carats
Shape: Button
Size: 8.5x8.5x6mm
Color: Purple
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Price: $2,840
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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 4.3 Carats
Shape: button
Size: 9x9x6.5mm
Color: Purple & Beige
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Price: $3,465

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Quahog Pearl

Carat Weight: 3.07 carats
Shape: Button
Size: 9.5x8.5x5.5mm
Color: lavender
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Price: $2242
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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 15.28 carats
Shape: Button
Size: 14x13.5x10mm
Color: Purple fading to Lavender on top
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Price: $22,920


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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 1.87 carats
Shape: Egg
Size: 6.5 x 6 x 6mm
Color: Dark Purple with Light Purple smaller end
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Price: $1,008
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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 2.67 carats
Shape: Baroque
Size: 10.5 x 6.5 x 5.5mm
Color: Purple with White, bad spot on bottom
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Price: $399

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Quahog Pearl

Carat Weight: 7.01 carats
Shape: Button
Size: 11x11x6.5mm
Color: Lavender fading to Beige
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Price: $5670

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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 1.28 carats
Shape: button
Size: 6x6x4mm
Color: dark purple
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Price: $1575

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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 8.98 carats
Shape: Mushroom shape
Size: 12 x 11 x 10mm
Color: Tricolor - purple, lavender, white
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Price: $6,360
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Quahog Pearl

Carat Weight: 15.55 Carats
Shape: button
Size: 15z13.5z9.5mm
Color: Luscious Lavender Shades
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Price: $23,325

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Quahog Pearl

Carat Weight: 9.44 carats
Shape: Oval Egg
Size: 13 x 9.5 x 9.5mm
Color: Tricolor Purple to Beige - 3 tiny visible spots
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Price: $9,578
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Quahog Pearl

Carat Weight: 4.725 carats
Shape: Button
Size: 10x10x6mm
Color: Purple with white flaw
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Price: $2,373

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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 2.35 carats
Shape: Baroque Drop
Size: 8.5 x 6.5 x 6mm
Color: Dark Purple with Light Purple on bottom
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Price: $951
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Quahog Pearl

Carat Weight: 3.835 carats
Shape: Drop
Size: 9 x 7.5mm
Color: Dark Purple, Cream & Lavender
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Price: $3,835

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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 1.45 carats
Shape: Roundish with 2 flat sides
Size: 6x5x5mm
Color: Beige
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Price: $336
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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 0.48 carats
Shape: Perfect Button
Size: 4 x 4 x 3mm
Color: Lavender top and beige bottom
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Price: $276

quahog pearl
Quahog Pearl

Carat Weight: 1.57 carats
Shape: Baroque
Size: 7.5 x 6 x 4mm
Color: Various shades of purple, lavender, cream & white. The purples fade into lavender and white.
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Price: $469

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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 1.37 carats
Shape: Baroque
Size: 7 x 5 x 5mm
Color: Dark Purple & Beige
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Price: $307

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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 3.14 carats
Shape: perfect button
Size: 9.5x9.5x4mm
Color: medium lavender & slightly lighter on top with beige bottom
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Price: $3,227
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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 2.43 carats
Shape: elongated
Size: 11x5.5x5mm
Color: dark purple
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Price: $2,513

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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 1.75 carats
Shape: perfect oval
Size: 7x5x5mm
Color: dark purple to lavender to beige
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Price: $1,605

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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 6.7 carats
Shape: perfect drop
Size: 16x7.5x7.5mm
Color: very light lavender & beige
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Price: $3,441

quahog pearl
Quahog Pearl

Weight: 1.64 carats
Shape: perfect Button
Size: 6x6x5mm
Color: very light lavender bullseye fading to beige
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Price: $680
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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 4.1 carats
Shape: perfect button
Size: 9x9x6mm
Color: Medium purple fading to lighter lavender on top
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Price: $4,196

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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 2.32 carats
Shape: Perfect Button
Size: 7.5x7.5x5mm
Color: Peach - very rare color for quahog pearl
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Price: $1,525

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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 1.65 carats
Shape: Baroque
Size: 7x6.5x5mm
Color: Purple & beige with bad part on back
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Price: $375

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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 0.785 carats
Shape: Perfect Button with Matte Surface
Size: 5.5x5x3.5mm
Color: Light Brown with small spot on top
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Price: $359

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Quahog Pearl

Weight: 10.60 carats
Shape: Perfect Tall Button
Size: 11x11x11mm
Color: Lovely Lavender with Darker Purple on top
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Price: $10,736

quahog pearl
Quahog Pearl

Carat Weight: 4.445 carat
Shape: Button
Size: 9 x 6.5mm
Color: Dark Purple
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Price: $5,334
quahog pearl
Quahog Pearl

Weight: 6.67 carats
Shape: Perfect Button
Size: 11 mm x 7 mm
Color: Light Lavender to white
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Price: $5,070

This comprehensive article on the famous Golash Brooch, which contains two quahog pearls, will help you understand the value and rarity of these natural pearls.

Here is a quote from the article:

"The diameter of the pearl is 14mm. Generally most quahog pearls have an average size of 5-6 mm. Thus a 14 mm pearl is considered as exceptionally large for quahog pearls. The combination of exceptionally large size and extraordinary quality, makes this quahog pearl an extremely rare pearl indeed, worthy of being listed as a famous pearl.

The size of the pearl in terms of its weight is approximately 2.7 grams, equivalent to 13.5 carats or 54 grains. In terms of its weight too the pearl is undoubtedly exceptional when compared with the average weight of most quahog pearls."

Piper Smith says that quahog pearls are amongst the rarest of gemstones.

Quahogs are pronounced “ko hog”, and are clams which many of us have enjoyed in a variety of dishes, or simply steamed at an oyster bar or restaurant. They are native to the Eastern US coast, especially around New England, and have been exported to the Pacific and European shores as they lend themselves to “aquaculture”. Indeed, in New England they form an important part of the fishing economy and are a major export from the region.

It is thought that only 1 in 5,000 clams produces a pearl but, before a pearl can be considered valuable, it also must possess visual appeal – many pearls are misshapen, or not particularly pretty to look at, which precludes their use in jewelery. This makes those pearls which are suitable for use in jewelry that much more valuable. Despite the huge commercial farming activity which processes millions of quahog clams every year, pearls are increasingly rare because of the automated nature of the process. Clams are cleaned and shucked mechanically, and this process typically destroys any pearls which may otherwise be uncovered.

Kunz has this to say about quahog pearls - purple pearls - in his 1908 book on pearls.

Pearls also occur in the quahog, or hard clam (Venus mercenaria), of the Atlantic coast of the United States. Although these are rare, they are generally of good form, and some weigh upward of eighty grains each. They are commonly of dark color, purplish, ordinarily, but they may be white, pale lilac, brown, and even purplish black or black. Fine dark ones have a high retail value. They are often referred to as "clam pearls".

It is not unlikely that the Indians of the Atlantic coast may have known of pearls from the common clam as well as from the edible oyster. The former may have often contained pearls weighing from fifty to one hundred grains each, as at that period the mollusks were permitted to attain their full growth, and perhaps were not eaten except when they were as small as little-neck clams; the larger ones were sought for the purple spot which held the muscle, and was used for wampum.

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