Pearls: the tears of the gods

Telegraph.co.uk-Sep. 17, 2013

Not your common or garden cultured pearls, which nowadays are mostly ... to a necklace created only last year by the Vietnamese jeweller Sam Tho Duong, ...

Pearls of wisdom: King Charles I's earring and Marylin Monroe's ...

Daily Mail-Aug. 29, 2013

From the pearl-drop earring worn by Charles I to his execution in 1649 to the delicate cultured pearl necklace presented to Marylin Monroe by Joe DiMaggio in ...

Pearls: Heritage and rarity endow star status

Financial Times-Jun. 7, 2013

In the early 1900s, natural pearls were the height of fashion and an important ... for natural pearl pendants, while the La Peregrina pearl necklace quadrupled its ...

Pearls - nature's lightest touch

Telegraph.co.uk-Sep. 17, 2013

When a pearl necklace is placed around a woman's throat, light is reflected upward ... No other gem is more lambent, or richly and resonantly symbolic: of luxury, ...