Buying Pearl Jewelery – What To Consider
Thursday, September 30th, 2010Pearls make great Jewelery and have been used for that purpose for more than 100 years. Historians believe that the Chinese even mastered the cultivation of freshwater pearls as soon as 700 years ago. A pearl appears when a single piece of sand is trapped inside a mussel or oyster. The shell tries to protect itself from the sand by coating it in layers and layers of shiny secretion. With time the layers turn into the orb that is called a pearl.