Shelled mollusks likely to produce pearls naturally. However, not all shells can produce pearls that are nice and have a decent selling points. Pearl produced mussels, generally it comes from families Pteriidae, but commonly referred to a only certain types such as gold or silver-lip pearl oyster (pearl shell gold lip or lip silver) Pinctada maxima, the black-lip pearl oyster (black lip pearl oyster) Pinctada margaritifera, Akoya pearl oysters (Akoya pearl oyster) Pinctada fucata and the winged-pearl oyster (winged pearl oysters) Pteria penguin. All members of this family lives in the sea. While the pearl produced mollusk, the other so far known from several groups of abalone and other gastropods as well as several types of shells of freshwater bivalves.
Each type of pearl oysters produce pearls with different specifications. Pinctada maxima pearl producing relatively larger than all kinds of shells producing pearls, silver, gold and beige. This species is widely cultivated in Indonesia, Burma, Thailand and Australia. Each type of pearl oysters produce pearls with different specifications. Pinctada maxima pearl producing relatively larger than all kinds of shells producing pearls, silver, gold and beige. This species is widely cultivated in Indonesia, Burma, Thailand and Australia. 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 in certain circles since the resulting shape pearls are generally not round.
1.Pearl of ALLAH or Lao-Tze Pearl
This pearl doesn't look like any other pearl that we usually see in any of jewelries or any types of accessories. This pearl doesn't have a good shape like any other pearl. but this is what makes this pearl unique and expensive.
Pearl of Allah (formally known as the Pearl of Lao-Tze) 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 the chiefs in Palawan in 1936 because Cobb had saved his life. Cobb descendants sold the pearl to a jewelry store in California in 1980 at a price of 200,000 U.S. dollars. Current prices estimated at 40 million U.S. dollars.This giant pearl found inside the giant clam Tridacna gigas. Things could not be produced by pearl oysters from Family Pteriidae or pearl that produced oysters from other types. the shape of Pearl of Allah is irregular (baroque) and resemble just like a large Brain. Which reached 23.8 cm long and weighs 6.4 pounds that makes it the largest pearl found so far.
2.La Peregrina
This pearl is in a good shape, and of course it looks beautiful. no wonder it was expensive. 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 this pearls. 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 this pearl and took this pearl to France and finally handed over 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, is about the trip or journey that has been so long, it has a shape such as tears or a pear, and weighs 10,192 grams.
3.Big Pink Pearl
A large pink colored pearl is worth 4.7 million U.S. dollars in 1991. It recorded in the Guinness Book of as the largest pearl found from abalone (Haliotis). Baroque-shaped and have an equivalent weight of 470 carat 94 grams. Pearl is owned by Wesley Rankin who discovered it in Salt Point State Park, California in 1990.
4.Abernathy Pearl
Natural pearls from freshwater was discovered by William Abernathyl, the divers in the river Tay in 1967. With a weight of 44 grains, pearls are considered the most perfect pearls are found from the rivers in Scotland. Pearl is named "the little willie".
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