World's Most Amazing Pearls

World's Most Amazing Pearls. In principle, shelled mollusks produce pearls naturally chance. However, not all oysters can produce pearls are nice and have bought a decent value.

Pearl producing mussels generally comes from the family Pteriidae, but commonly known only certain types, such as gold or silver-lip pearl oyster (pearl oyster or gold-lip lips silver) Pinctada maxima, black-lip pearl oyster (Black Lips Pearly shells) Pinctada margaritifera, Akoya pearl oyster (Akoya pearl oyster) Pinctada fucata and the winged-pearl oyster (winged Pearly shells), Pteria penguin. All members of this family live in the sea. While other producers of farmed molluscs so far known from the Group and some other abalone as well as some type of gastropod shells home of freshwater.

Every kind of Pearl oysters produce pearls with different specifications. Pinctada maxima Pearl produces relatively greater than all kinds of shellfish producers of pearls, silver, gold and beige. This type of cultivated in Indonesia, Burma, Thailand and Australia. Whereas oysters Pinctada margaritifera is a type of Prima Donna of South Pacific countries. The Pearl it generates vary from creamy color to black. Black is the color of interest customers of pearls the world today. Thus the price is very expensive. The Diameter of the pearls produced is generally smaller than those produced by the Pinctada maxima. While the Pinctada fucata is a type of cultivated in Japan, and not much cultivated Pteria penguin because so far the result is only on certain circles given the form of pearls it generates are generally not round.

1. Pearl of Allah / Lao-Tze Pearl
   Pearl of Allah (officially known as the pearl of Lao-Tze) is the world's largest Pearl was found in 1934 in offshore Palawan island by a diver in the Philippines. Pearl was a gift to Wilbur Dowell Cobb by chiefs in Palawan in 1936 due to Cobb has been saving lives. Cobb's descendants sold the pearls to the jewel stores in California in 1980 with a price of US$200,000. Current rates are estimated at 40 million US dollars.
   
   
   
   
   This gigantic pearls found in the giant Tridacna gigas tridacna. It was probably produced by the pearl oyster or clam from Family Pteriidae-Pearl of the other types. Shape Pearls Pearl of Allah irregular (baroque) and resembles the brain big head. Long reach 14.8 cms and weighs 6.4 pounds making it the largest Pearl was found for this.



2. La Peregrina
   La peregrina or The Castaways (the traveller) is the Pearl found in the Islands, Perlas, off the coast of Panama in the 1500s. Reportedly, the Pearl was found by a slave who wants freedom as payment of pearls found. Pearl is brought and handed over to the King of Spain Philip II and the King was given to the Queen Mary, as a gift. Brother of Napoleon I, Joseph Bonaparte seized Pearl and brought it to France and finally comes the Pearl to the Duke of Abercrombie.
   
   Finally, the Pearl was purchased at a price of 40 thousand dollars by Richard Burton and given as gifts Valentine's Day to Elizabeth Taylor. The uniqueness of this Pearl, besides the trips that is so long, he has a form like tears or pear-shaped, and have heavy 10.192 grams.
   
   
   
   



3. Big Pink Pearl
   This was a large pink pearls worth 4.7 million US dollars in 1991. He is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest Pearl found from abalone (Haliotis). Baroque-shaped and has a weight of 470 carat is equivalent to 100 grams. Mutiara is owned by Wesley Rankin who discovered it in Salt Point State Park, California in 1990.



4. Abernathy Pearl
   Natural freshwater pearls from was discovered by William Abernathyl, the Pearl divers on the River Tay in 1967. With a weight of 40 grains, pearls are considered the most perfect pearls are found of rivers in Scotland. Pearl was named "the little willie".