Facts and Froth with Jill Lowe

The World is your Oyster - Clutch your Pearls!

What comes to mind when you think of pearls? strands, ropes, pendants, earrings, tiaras, pins? The Hermitage in St Petersburg? Royal jewelery in London? Coco Chanel, Jackie Kennedy or Grace Kelly? pearls and twinsets? What colors shapes and sizes come to mind? graduated or unified sized pearls in a strand?

Fashions and tastes change in all the above aspects.

One of nature’s greatest miracles, that most lustrous gemstone: the Pearl : natural pearls are rare: the only jewel in the world created by a living creature.