If you must have a jewelry box that is full of personality and unconventional, but can be versatile with all clothes.

Then the first choice I recommend is alien pearls.

Many people prefer literature and art, which is called "Baroque Pearl".

There are many kinds of special-shaped pearls, although they are all irregular in shape, but their values vary greatly.

Influenced by the variety of mother-shells, artificial intervention in growth and the difference of aquaculture environment in waters, the size, luster and shape of abnormal pearls will all affect their value.

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Ordinary freshwater shaped pearls are sold by the catty, but the value of one kind of shaped pearls is one hundred times that of the same kind.

It was accidentally produced in the process of pearl cultivation, and it was once touted by some merchants as "natural wild seawater abnormity pearl"-SmithKline Pearl.

Keshi pearls commonly used in business refer to those seedless mariculture pearls with strange and irregular shapes.

The Tahiti black pearl we bought before, why is the powder white when it is punched? This article introduces:

Freshwater pearls are usually seedless pearls with thick layers but irregular shapes. Round freshwater pearls are actually one in a hundred.

However, seawater pearls are usually nucleated pearls, and the pearl layer is thin, but the shape is round.

So are seedless seawater pearls pure wild?

Not exactly.

Accurately speaking, Tsui Hark pearl was formed by accident in the process of cultivating nucleated seawater pearls: it was formed by artificial implantation and spontaneous secretion of nucleated mollusks and cell separation.

In the process of cultivating nucleated seawater pearls, the pearl nucleus is artificially inserted into the mother shell to stimulate the mother shell to secrete nacre and wrap it into pearls.

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In one case, my hands are shaking-during nucellar implantation, the outer mantle of the mother shell is broken, and after the cell pieces produced by the rupture are separated and detached, the cell pieces grow together with the outer mantle of the mother shell to form a pearl sac.

The nacre secreted by the mother shell gradually grows in the capsule, forming an irregular pearl-Tsui Hark Pearl.

At one time, there were some disputes about the origin of Tsui Hark pearls in the market. Some merchants in the market once sold Tsui Hark pearls as natural pearls.

However, in essence, Tsui Hark Pearl is a kind of seawater seedless cultured pearl formed by artificial intervention.

Due to the low yield and good luster of pearls, high-quality Tsui Hark pearls cultured in seawater are far higher than those cultured in fresh water.

Of course, under the premise of the same size of pearls, Tsui Hark's price can't keep up with the round seawater pearls. However, as jewelry, Tsui Hark Pearl jewelry is sometimes worth twice as much because of the designer's clever use of pens, that is, there is a design premium.

The characteristics of Tsui Hark Pearl (SmithKline Pearl);

1, with peculiar shape, variety and irregularity, is usually only a few millimeters in size (common1~ 8mm).

2. Because there is no pearl core, the pearl layer is thicker than the cultured pearl with core.

3. According to the variety of mother-shells (Marcello Malpighi, white butterfly, black butterfly and golden lip), the common keshu beads are mostly white, gray, black and gold.

4. Due to the unexpected growth of pearls in the process of cultivation, the output is uncontrollable, and the output of Tsui Hark pearls is relatively small. Because the shape is too strange and the size is too small, there are fewer people who can make jewelry, so Tsui Hark pearl jewelry can rarely be copied and produced in large quantities.

In addition to SmithKline pearls, mariculture pearls and freshwater cultured pearls, there are nucleated heteromorphosis pearls. Compared with Shi Kezhu, it is characterized by large size, thin bead layer and more round shape.

In freshwater cultured pearls, pearl cores with different shapes will be inserted into mother shells, and strange pearls such as star, moon, square and chicken feet will be cultivated.

As for the common freshwater pearls that are not quite round in the market, although they are also alien, they can't be used as selling points at all. After all, they are not long and round at all, so they are not that valuable.

The special-shaped pearls cultured in fresh water are white, champagne, orange and purple, while Tsui Hark pearls are generally only white, gray, metallic, gold and black.

If a merchant holds a string of strange orange-purple pearls and tells you that they are pure wild seawater pearls, he can basically walk away.

On the other hand, if you are lucky enough to find natural pearls in wild shellfish, and the pearls are big and pearl, then congratulations!

Real natural pearls are scarce and expensive, and high-quality natural pearls are even more elusive. 20 18 Christie's autumn auction, a pair of natural pearl earrings actually sold 7.9 million.

Incidentally, according to the national standard "Names of Jewelry and Jade" (GB/T 16552-20 10), cultured pearls are abbreviated as pearls, and only real natural pearls can be labeled as "natural".

Every time I see the natural pearls written in the seller's product description, I really want to correct them. )

So, don't ask us why we don't sell natural pearls next time. These pearls are real, born from mussels, not pressed with powder, but they are not natural.