14kt 7-7.5mm White Cultured Akoya Pearl Double Strand Necklace Item: FRL006
Price: $149.99
Product Description for 14kt 7-7.5mm White Cultured Akoya Pearl Double Strand Necklace14kt yellow gold 7-7.5mm round white cultured akoya pearl double strand necklace. The necklace has a width of 9/16 inch and has a bead clasp.
Product Information for 14kt 7-7.5mm White Cultured Akoya Pearl Double Strand Necklace
| Product Type: | Necklace | Link: | GEMSTONE |
| Style: | Double Strand | Material Type: | Gold |
| Length: | 18 Inches | Material Color: | Yellow |
| Width: | 9/16 Inch | Material Purity: | 14Kt |
| Closure: | Bead Clasp |
Primary Stone / Akoya Pearl
| Shape: | Round | Treatment: | Untreated |
| Cut: | Uncut | Gemstone Group: | Pearl |
| Color: | White | Optical Properties: | Iridescence |
| Dimensions: | 7 MM - Calibrated | Setting: | Strung |
| Composition: | Cultured |
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3 of 5 (60%) customers would recommend this product to a friend. |
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Returning poor grade akoya pearls,
August 11, 2008
bornbuckeye
, Georgia
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"If you are familiar with the grading system used for pearls, this strand would be an "A" at best, and that's not too good:
-At least 70% of pearl’s surface is clean
-Shape is round to near round
-Luster is poor to medium (chalky appearance)
-Pearl exhibits good to medium reflection
-Nacre depth is thin
-Matching is fair to excellent
I was hoping for at least AA or AA+. This double strand had many mis-shaped pearls, almost baroque. I was looking forward to this special purchase. Even the color was dull and not very white. Great value, but you get what you pay for."
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Product met expectations:
No
Purchased as a gift:
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5
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Awesome pearls,
March 30, 2008
PitterPat
, Houston, TX
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"These pearls are as beautiful as the set I was given 15 years ago that cost $1,000! The luster is incredible. I am extremely happy with my purchase. The delivery was too long, but the pearls are beautiful."
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Product met expectations:
Yes
Purchased as a gift:
No
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Picture is deceiving,
February 17, 2008
Natashia
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"I received this item in the mail and return it. There were to many inperfections. If you don't mind all the bumps that are on the pearls, then this will be the right pearls for you."
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 home learning library pearl
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Fast Facts
| Once the price of pearls was so extravagant they caused wars and even funded a war, but today cultured pearls have made this “queen of gems” available to everyone. |
| Once, all pearls were only natural, most recovered from the Persian Gulf, occurring once in every 15,000 oysters. |
| Pearls form in the mollusk in a variety of shapes, including: round (spherical), off-round, semi-baroque, baroque, rice shaped, button or disk, and many fancy shapes created by the insertion of specially shaped nucleus beads. |
| Many royal families had an obsession with pearls. Some ancient Romans covered whole pieces of furniture in pearl, and in some monarchies only members of the royal were legally allowed to wear pearls. |
 When light touches the pearl, it travels through all the layers of nacre, and each tiny crystal reflects the light like miniature prisms. The end result? A lustrous, breathtaking pearl.
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A pearl is a lustrous, organic gem produced by saltwater oysters, freshwater mussels and occasionally by some shellfish. It exhibits a range of colors from white to pink, silver, cream, peach, gold, green, blue and black. Oh Mohs’ scale of hardness, pearl is 2.5 – 4.5. Primary sources of Sea Pearls include Persian Gulf; Gulf of Manaar; along the coasts of Madagascar, Burma (Myanmar), and the Philippines; many islands in the South Pacific, northern Australia; and the coastal lines of Central and northern South America; and some small beds in Japan. Primary sources of freshwater Pearls include United States, some in Europe (restricted in Central Europe).
Color
Pearl exhibits a range of colors from white to pink, silver, cream, peach, gold, green, blue and black.
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