{"id":466,"date":"2013-11-07T11:03:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T11:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/?p=466"},"modified":"2014-01-07T16:52:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T16:52:34","slug":"whats-difference-wild-pearls-non-nucleated-pearls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/world-of-pearls\/whats-difference-wild-pearls-non-nucleated-pearls\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the Difference Between Wild Pearls and Non-Nucleated Pearls?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"size-full wp-image-472\">What<em> is<\/em> the difference between wild pearls (natural pearls)and non-nucleated cultured pearls? At the moment it is thousands of \u00a3 and an educated guess without 100% provenance.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Telling the difference between a pearl which has come about in a wild shell as against what could be called a keishi or simply a tissue nucleated pearl is sometimes impossible. But necessary because the true wild pearl &#8211; usually called a natural pearl in the trade &#8211; can be worth a huge amount of money.<\/div>\n<div>It has been a problem since culturing began about 80 years or so ago.<\/div>\n<div>The Gemological Institute of America and Australian South Sea pearl company Paspaley have worked to collect natural pearl samples from Paspaley&#8217;s wild <em>Pinctada Maxima<\/em> beds. Australia\u2019s wild pearl oyster beds have been fished continuously since the mid-1800s<\/div>\n<p>In 10 days aboard a Paspaley ship GIA researchers collected 776 natural pearls from 20,488 large wild oysters. Most were were small \u201cseed\u201d pearls, with the smallest measuring under 1mm ir, and the largest was 16mm.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_472\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Paspaley01_cp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-472\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-472\" alt=\"south sea wild pearls\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Paspaley01_cp.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 776 swhite south sea wild pearls<\/p><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">Since these pearls have a clear provenance they can be used to establish benchmark criteria for future pearl assays and for now extensive research will be carried out using in-house high resolution real-time microradiography and micro CT imaging, as well as detailed chemical analyses and other tests.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The research will be published when completed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the difference between wild pearls (natural pearls)and non-nucleated cultured pearls? At the moment it is thousands of \u00a3 and an educated guess without 100% provenance. Telling the difference between a pearl which has come about in a wild shell as against what could be called a keishi or simply a tissue nucleated pearl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[136,137,135,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}