Judge the quality of pearl

There are four aspects can affect pearl's quality, they are size, shape, color and skin light.

if the pearl sizes are different, their worth are very different, too. The larger the pearl, the more valuable.

Pearl's shape has precisely round, ordinary round, flat, bread-shaped, oval, milk fall-shaped, gourd-shaped, etc. The precisely round is the best, followed by the other form, irregular shape is the bads.

Pearl colors are white, yellow, pink, purple, black, gray and so on.

Pearls' quality is quite different, according to international standards, pearls are divided into five levels, The high-quality pearl which diameter is more than 9 mm can ask price each, each price is very high, even can up to million of dollars.

And substandard Pearl (raw beads, dirt beads, with light bead) ask price in tonnes or tens of dollars / kg, which is generally only as medicine.

Pearl is also divided into natural pearls and cultured pearls, and natural pearl is nearly exhausted as early as the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty of China (about in the middle of 17th-century), in the natural environment, every ten thousand mussels can only be picked about 10g pearls, and small size, irregular shape, plus with the pearl picking is a very dangerous and difficult work, along with the rise of cultured pearls, the pearl-picking industry has long disappeared.

So there is no longer a natural pearl, and now pearls on the market, basically, are all cultured pearls.

Cultured pearls are divided into sea pearls and freshwater pearls.

The advantage of freshwater pearls is that no nuclear, easy maintenance, more production; and the disadvantage is that 80% worse shape which only as medicine, the precisely round pearls is very rare.

The disadvantage of seawater pearls is that nuclear, production is very easy affected by the natural environmental, and the advantage is good color, precisely round, most are able to make jewelry.

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