Before the creation of cultured pearls in the early 1900s, natural pearls were so rare and expensive that they were reserved almost exclusively for the noble and very rich. A jewelry item that ...

A great irony of pearl history is that the least expensive cultured pearl product in the market today rivals the quality of the most expensive natural pearls ever found. The price-value anomaly is ...

A mom who found a rare pearl inside a bowl of mussels at her birthday dinner has had it made into a "beautiful" piece of ...

and a necklace can reach over $200,000. So, how are these pearls grown? And what makes them so expensive? More from Retail South Sea pearls are the largest cultured-pearl variety, sometimes ...

Whether it’s real diamonds or nickel, jewelry has defined both outfits ... When designers figured out a way to make cultured ...

The Federal Trade Commission recently amended its Jewelry Guides to help prevent ... from something consumers clearly understand – cultured pearls – rather than obfuscating consumers with ...

Kim Kardashian has taken her love of vintage fashion to new heights, wearing Princess Diana's iconic Attallah Cross to a film ...

Meline: A pearl is one of the most complex gems to assess the value of. One factor is whether it's natural or cultured ... This is when the real value of the gem is determined.

When pearls are cultured commercially an irritant is manually inserted into a mollusc to promote the production of mother-of-pearl. Nacre can form naturally around almost any irritant that gets inside ...