| 41. | Most beadless cultured pearls are mantle-grown in freshwater shells in China, and are known as freshwater cultured pearls.
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| 42. | Most beadless cultured pearls are mantle-grown in freshwater shells in China, and are known as freshwater cultured pearls.
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| 43. | Pendants include silver teardrops, cultured pearl drops, disks centered with cubic zirconia and a large oval-cut smoky topaz.
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| 44. | Therefore, a Keshi pearl could be considered superior to cultured pearls with a mother of pearl bead center.
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| 45. | Cultured pearls dominate the U . S . market, and half of them come from Japanese Akoya oysters.
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| 46. | The nucleus bead in a beaded cultured pearl is generally a polished sphere made from freshwater mussel shell.
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| 47. | Sibani has a private collection of classic cultured pearls and a few " not so nice " natural ones.
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| 48. | In 1921 Murakami and Gregory formed a joint venture to produce cultured pearls, however government intervention scuppered the plans.
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| 49. | However, it is more abundant than the South Sea pearl, which is more valuable than the black cultured pearl.
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| 50. | Cultured pearls are formed by placing an irritant into the shell of an edible shellfish such as an oyster.
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