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Because of their scarcity and irregularity, abalone pearls don’t have the same value as traditional pearls.
He holds the world's largest patent on the technology.Macnow said US Abalone also battles the stigma associated with mabe pearls.
"When US Abalone started culturing the pearls five years ago, company leaders thought they were sitting on top of the jewelry world's Next Big Thing. While there have been attempts to culture abalone pearls, there are virtually no commercially cultured abalone pearls available. That means the pearls are less versatile than standard ones because they can't be strung into necklaces; they must be set into pendants, rings or earrings.But jewelers like Brooks and Alfille are rare, with only a relative handful selling abalone pearls worldwide. The half-dome shaped jewels -- swirls of creamy pinks, greens, blues and sometimes even golds -- are prized for their beauty and luster. Brown and grey on the outside, and covered in seaweed, they hide a world of iridescent blue pearl colour inside their shells.Also considered a delicacy by some, Abalones are typically found off the coasts of Western USA, Mexico, Japan, Korea, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Please let me know if you have seen a larger one. Favorite Add to See similar items + More like this . "(They) have a much nicer range of color than the pearls of New Zealand . But the challenges for Abalone pearl farmers are even harder as the animal is particularly sensitive to injury.It would be almost impossible today to collect a sufficient quantity of round Abalone pearls to match and make into a conventional pearl necklace. Seeohren (Haliotis), auch Meerohren bzw.Abalonen genannt, sind eine Gattung großer Schnecken und die einzige Gattung der monogenerischen Familie der Haliotidae, die in fast allen warmen Meeren (außer im Westatlantik) vorkommen, teilweise auch in gemäßigten Zonen, wie Haliotis tuberculata im Ärmelkanal.Sie gleichen in ihrer Form einer Ohrmuschel und besitzen eine perlmuttreiche Schale. Many have tried to insert nuclei into internal organs such as the gonad or stomach, where they are safe from being dislodged by the abalone foot. Article by GIA According to Elisabeth Strack in her amazing book, Pearls, blister pearls are pearls with originally formed as free pearls within the connective tissue of the mantle and which merged later with the shell.At first the pearl will only touch the shell at one point before a first stem-like connection forms. "If a designer makes a few pieces and then gets an order from a big chain like Ben Bridge, (suppliers) would be hard pressed to come up with identical matching items in the same design scheme," he said. But harvesters have yet to figure out how to reproduce the pearls in a lab.Jewelers also say it's only a matter of time before the pearl catches on. It's a challenge for us, given the size we're at, to compete effectively," he said.Jeanene Harlick, Special to The ChronicleDevin Macnow of the Cultured Pearl Information Center in New York says it has partly to do with youth. However, his attempts at producing whole round pearls were less successful. While an oyster will coexist with an inserted irritant -- usually a tiny plastic bead -- and coat it with nacre, the abalone will push the pearl nucleus right out. "It's amazing the amount of money that goes into marketing jewelry. Most are hollowed out and filled with epoxy resin, making them fragile and apt to crack. Although most live for 10 to 20 years, they can reach as much as 40 or 50 years in age.Public Domain, via Wikimedia CommonsNatural Abalone pearls are very rare. ).The Abalone pearls are found only rarely; in one lot of one hundred shells, only five were found bearing pearls two with three pearls each, two with two pearls each, and one with a single pearl. ""Everybody that comes in notices them and wants to know more about them," she said. One company, Empress Abalone Ltd.ofChristchurch,NewZealand,issuccessfullyculturing brightly colored blister pearls within New Zealand’s Haliotisiris (figure 1). "It takes any market quite a few years to embrace a new product.