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Robert Crowningshield's Insights into Pearl Cultivation (published in 1962)
April 18, 2024
Freshwater Pearls The Laboratory examination of baroque, oval and round freshwater cultured pearls without mother-of-pearl centers was reported in Gems & Gemology, Summer 1958, at about the same time that hollow-centered Australian cultured pearls were described. Prior to this, we had seen in the New York Laboratory small, very flattened, baroque freshwater cultured pearls and reported them in The Loupe, January-February, 1958. Very pleasing and marketable freshwater cultured pearls became available to the American market in quantity in 1961, when the Jahawa Corporation, 580 Fifth Avenue, NYC, was formed, as the exclusive United States distributor. Since little has been published...