Information on Majorica Pearls

Who wants a strand of Natural pearls anyway? Information on Majorica pearls discovers you don't need oysters for pearls, girls!

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Majorica pearls or Mallorca pearls is the name given to man-made pearls first made on the Spanish island of Majorca in the Mediterranean over a century ago.

Majorica pearls and Mallorca pearls are the same types of pearls. Majorica pearls are a pearl imitation that have a close likeness to natural pearls.

If you would like to join a long string of pearl wearers, that include the rich and famous and members of the british royal family, and eschew an authenticity certificate or a designer label, for a strand of pearls that would fool the pearl gods themselves, and put a smile on an oysters face, then Majorica pearls, are worth your consideration.

Information on Majorica Pearls reveals that the best of the best imitation pearls are by the Spanish company by the same name, Majorica, founded in 1890 by a German immigrant Eduardo Hugo Heusch. I've been told that strings of Majorica pearls start at affordable prices.

Usually, on planet-pearl, the term "organic pearls" will refer to cultured pearls or natural pearls but Majorica are setting new pearl grading standards that would make Mr Mikimoto blush.

It makes what it calls "organic" pearls by a process involving, not oysters, glass or plastic, but the fish themselves.

Fish scales are used to coat the core of the "pearl" often referred to as the starter bead.

Nobody on pearl planet would dare to ask Mr Majorica Pearls what the core of these types of pearls are actually made from. The exact process of how Majorica pearls are made, remains a closely guarded secret, we know from books containing rare, old information on pearls.

What little information on Majorica pearls that we do have concerning their formation, is that trained Majorica pearl experts create an artificial nuclei by hand with the assistance of custom-made machinery.

The resultant artificial nuclei is then dipped repeated in what is referred to as, an "essence d'-orient" before the final coating undergoes ultraviolet radiation.

After several scale coatings, the pearl is polished and then dipped into the fish-scale mixture once again for a lovely mirror finish. The company feel they have produced something unique and indeed they have!

How to Identify Majorica pearls from a Natural pearls?

One of a natural pearl's most appealing features is that each little pearl will have a certain blemish just like a birthmark or fingerprint that make them unique and extremely valuable.

Reference:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorica

2. Tamsin Blanchard, The Independent (London), June 20, 1995. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4723046.html

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