Magic Pearl

Pearls!

The very word conjures up images of immediate wealth, classic beauty and nobility. Throughout history, pearls have always been associated with power and money, because only the rich and powerful that they can afford. Throughout history, were rated higher than the balls of gold or diamonds.

Pearl reputation of great importance in our language. We always talk about "Pearls of Wisdom", which is the highest form of wisdom, the wisest of the wise. Jesus Christ spoke about "pearls before swine", as the waste can be a valuable resource. And the entrance to heaven? The Gates of Paradise, of course.

Why pearls have been helpful? Beads were extremely rare. Unlike gold or precious stones, they can not be extracted from the earth, but actually a living organism, oysters or clams. Beads do not appear in the "core", such as precious metals and gemstones. They are scattered over a large area, and under water. Even in areas where there are a lot of oysters, and rare are those that contain pearls, and gathering oysters is enough to find the pearls was a difficult and dangerous. Oysters are also vulnerable to climate change and disease. Total beds can be destroyed within one year, which excludes the possibility to find more pearls. All the problems do not exist in precious metals or precious stones.

In what is perhaps the most celebrated banquet in history, Cleopatra, Marc Antony challenged to show the rates that Egypt is a treasure of history, which he set before winning, she said it would give the most extravagant dinner in history, and is called play Mark Antony. During the meeting, Cleopatra took a pearl, crushed it into powder, put it in a glass of wine and drank it. Marc-Antoine immediately conceded defeat and refused to supply his food, a perfect jewel of Cleopatra was one currently uses. Pliny wrote in his famous "Natural History" that the cost of the two balls was estimated at 60 million sesterces, the equivalent of 1.87 million ounces of silver. At the current price of $ US7.25/oz, which amounts to about $ US13.5 million. Very extravagant meals.

At the height of the Roman Empire, the historian Suetonius wrote that the Roman general Vitellius entire campaign for the sale of a financed earrings from her mother.

In the knights often wore pearls Dark Ages on the battlefield. They believed that the magic that had to protect them from danger.

In the royal court of pearls Renaissance Europe as a symbol of the aristocracy were considered. Since pearls were so highly valued, has adopted a number of European countries have laws that wear pearls there is no prohibition of noble birth.

With the discovery and exploitation of America, called the opening of pearls in Central American waters, a stream of pearls in Europe. Unfortunately, in the late 17 th century was almost destroyed by American pearl beds in demand for pearls in Europe.

Legendary Jacques Cartier bought his famous shop on the 5 th Avenue in New York in 1916. Price? Two pearl necklaces perfect.

That all changed in 1916 when kikich Mikimoto, the son of the creator of noodles on his patented method of culture pearls in oysters. This was not the first to invent the method. Two other Japanese men, and the last Tatsuhei Tokichi Nishikawa, had independently discovered how to do it and agreed with the discovery, which later split with the method of Mise-Nishikawa. His technique was patented in 1907 Mikimoto can not patent his process, without violating the earlier patent, he changed his application to patent a technique for producing round pearls. This allows him to avoid the formality of the old against the patent.

Mikimoto began building his empire saw pearl with passion and dedication of people like Henry Ford and Thomas Alva Edison. A born businessman, promoter and entrepreneur, he soon acquired the rights to the method of Mise-Nishikawa, and continued to experiment and improve his techniques today Mikimoto pearls are the most famous and probably the best quality of sea cultured pearls available.

More recently, decorated with pearls, dead movie stars, on and off the game, the list-society ladies and wives of politicians and the rich and powerful. Everyone from Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the Queen of England made its public appearance, at one time or another, wear pearls.

What is this fascination we have today with the pearl?

Many things. Pearl's only decoration, glitter, the determining factor for the quality of the ball. Glitter can shine a light, almost like an inner glow that does not have a jewel like. Almost as if the pearls were still alive, perhaps, the quality of one created by a living creature, and not formed under the influence of temperature and mass of millions of years of pressure were the most precious stones. Pearl is also manifested only gem that does not require treatment in its true glory. It should not be cut or ground, its natural beauty and is absolutely without human intervention.

This may be because of these qualities, pearls when worn on a naked woman's body seems life and vitality to lift the skin and spread a warm light, because it can be in the way no other precious stones.

Anyway, luckily for us, the advent of cultured pearls, which is "natural" pearls can be distinguished from the experts with the help of a microscope, led to this beautiful and flattering precious stones in the area of all. Price of a necklace of cultured pearls is a good fraction of a diamond necklace, as in the same nice, modern and flattering, as part of the precious stones. Beads belong to each collection of jewelry fashionable woman. Make sure that the.