Natural freshwater pearls occur in mussels for the same reason that saltwater pearls occur in oysters. Foreign material, usually a sharp object or parasite, enters a mussel and cannot be expelled.

whereas Japanese pearls were found near the coast in salt water. Nearly all the pearls in commerce originated from those few sources. Over the next millennium only three substantive events altered ...

What makes the Bird on a Pearl capsule collections so special is that they are made from extremely rare natural saltwater pearls. Due to the increasing pollution in the world's oceans, natural ...

Due to the increasing pollution in the world’s oceans, natural pearls are becoming extremely elusive—even still, according to Sotheby’s, the majority of natural saltwater pearls were ...

Tiffany & Co.’s beloved winged creature returns on one-of-a-kind natural pearls that can take up to 20 years to source.