4 Stone World's Most Famous Pearls

4 Stone World's Most Famous Pearls

Pearl-producing mussels generally come from families Pteriidae, but commonly referred to only certain types such as gold or silver-lip pearl oyster (gold lip mother of pearl or silver lip) Pinctada maxima, black-lip pearl oyster (black lip pearl oysters)

Pinctada margaritifera, Akoya pearl oysters (Akoya pearl oyster) Pinctada fucata and the winged-pearl oyster (pearl-winged) Pteria penguin.

Stone World's Most Famous Pearls 

All members of this family live in the sea. While other mollusks that produce pearls are known so far comes from the abalone and some other gastropods as well as some types of freshwater bivalves shells.

Each type of pearl oysters produce pearls with different specifications. Pinctada maxima produces relatively larger pearls of all types of shells producing pearls, silver, gold and beige. This species is widely cultivated in Indonesia, Burma, Thailand and Australia.

While shellfish species Pinctada margaritifera is the belle of the south pacific countries. The resulting pearl color varies from beige to black. The black color is the color of pearls customer demand world today. Thus very expensive. Diameter of the pearls produced are generally smaller than those produced Pinctada maxima.

While Pinctada fucata is a widely cultivated species in Japan, and Pteria penguin is not widely cultivated because so far the results are intended only to certain circles given the form of pearls produced are generally not circular.

1. Stone Pearl's first World's Most Famous PEARL of GOD / Pearl of Lao-Tze

Pearl of Allah (officially known as Lao-Tze pearl) is the world's largest pearl was found in 1934 off the coast of the island of Palawan by a Filipino diver.

Pearls are used as gifts to Wilbur Dowell Cobb by chiefs in Palawan in 1936 as Cobb saved his life.

Stone Pearl's first World's Most Famous PEARL of GOD / Pearl of Lao-Tze 

Cobb descendants to sell the pearl jewelry store in California in 1980 at a price of 200,000 U.S. dollars. The current price is estimated at 40 million U.S. dollars.

This giant pearl found inside the giant clam Tridacna gigas. It is not likely produced by pearl oysters or clams from Family Pteriidae the pearl of the other types.

Shape pearl Pearl of Allah is irregular (baroque) and resembles the head of a large brain. Which reached 23.8 cm long and weighs 6.4 pounds making it the largest pearl found so far.

2. Stone World's Most Famous Pearls second La Peregrina

La Peregrina or the rover (the traveler) is a pearl found in the Perlas Islands, off the coast of Panama in the 1500s. That said, the pearl was discovered by a slave who wants freedom as payment of the discovery of pearls.

Stone World's Most Famous Pearls second La Peregrina 

This pearl was brought and handed over to the Spanish King Phillip II and the King presented him to Queen Mary, as a wedding gift. Brother of Napoleon I, Joseph Bonaparte took the pearl and took him to France and finally came this pearl to the Duke of Abercrombie.

Finally, the pearl was purchased at a price of 37 thousand U.S. dollars by Richard Burton and present it as a Valentine's Day gift to Elizabeth Taylor. The uniqueness of this pearl, besides perjalanannnya so long, she has a shape like a tear or a pear, and has a weight of 10 192 grams.

3. Stone World's Most Famous Pearls third Big Pink Pearl

Large pink colored pearls are worth 4.7 million U.S. dollars in 1991. He recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest pearls found from abalone (Haliotis).

 Stone World's Most Famous Pearls third Big Pink Pearl 

Baroque-shaped and having an equivalent weight of 470 carat 94 grams. Mutiara is owned by Wesley Rankin who discovered it in Salt Point State Park, California in 1990.

4. Stone World's Most Famous Pearls fourth Abernathy Pearl

Natural pearls from freshwater was discovered by William Abernathyl, the pearl divers in the river Tay in 1967. With a weight of 44 grains, pearls are considered the most perfect pearl is found from the rivers of Scotland. Pearl is named "the little willie".

Stone World's Most Famous Pearls fourth Abernathy Pearl 

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