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Pearl Earrings

Pink Tourmaline with Grey Pearls

We have a wonderful selection of pearl earrings combined with colored gems, simple pearl ear studs, and jackets. Jackets can be worn with any ear studs to spice up your earring wardrobe. Shown here are rare, matching pink tourmaline ear studs with Tahitian baroque drops.

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Pearl Enhancers

Pearl Enhancer, Large White Freshwater Baroque Pearl 23x15mm, Indicolite Tourmaline 6.7x5.4mm .85ct, 14KY

Pearl enhancers are meant to adorn your strand of pearls. They can be easily added or removed from pearls or hung on a chain, thus making them a versatile addition to your jewelry wardrobe.

Shown here on a unique strand of white South Sea Baroque pearls. We offer a wide variety of pearl necklaces in all colors, lengths, and sizes. We re-string your pearls.

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Pearl, June Birthstone

Pearl – a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk. Its hardness is only 2.5 – 4.5 on the Moh’s scale so we don’t recommend it for an everyday ring, but earrings, pendants, necklaces, and bracelets are just wonderful to wear.

Pearls come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and colors. They are irridescent and can be white, pink, silver, cream, brown, green, blue, black, yellow, orange, gold, and purple.

Freshwater pearls form in various species of freshwater mussels, which live in lakes, rivers, ponds, and other bodies of fresh water.

Saltwater pearls grow within pearl oysters, which live in oceans. Saltwater pearl oysters are usually cultivated in protected lagoons or volcanic atolls. These are called Akoya pearls.

Tahitian pearl (black pearl) is an organic gem formed from the black lip oyster, Pinctada margartifera. They are primarily cultivated around the islands of French Polynesia, around Tahiti. 

South Sea Pearls are produced in the Philippines, Australia, and Indonesia. It’s the largest of all pearls and ranges in size from 9 – 20 mm. They can be cream, white, or golden, and they are harvested from the oyster pinktada maxima.