Gem Junkies
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Parle Jewelry Design's Jonathan and Brecken Farnsworth.
The Very Cultured Pearl Pt 2
30 minutes Posted Aug 31, 2018 at 10:06 pm.
Your fly is down
Assembling furniture/A busy weekend
Back to Pearls . . .the worlds LARGEST pearl
Any mollusk can produce a pearl
Another famous pearl in history – La Peregrina
There are 7 factors that go into the value of a pearl: https://www.gia.edu/pearl-quality-factor
Factor #1 – Size
Factor #2 – Shape
Factor #3—Color
Factor #4 – Luster classification
Factor #5 – Surface quality
Factor #6—Surface quality
Nacre and its chalk appearance
Factor #7—Matching pearls
To make black pearls
Gamma rays
The process of essence d’orient
How to take care of your pearls
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Wrapping things up in our own special coating of Nacre with our part 2 of the Pearl series. Brecken and Jonathan follow the life of a well-traveled Pearl, we also head to a very strange place to uncover the worlds biggest Pearl, all while discussing what makes this little organic gem so valuable. Join us for this epic journey into the sea of Pearls!
For more details and articles head over to GIA: https://www.gia.edu/pearl