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What Color of Pearls Are the Most Valuable?Some of the most valuable pearls
As in diamonds, the value of certain colors in pearls, can be purely an aesthetic matter. There is still great argument over what is the perfect color of pearl, with opinions ranging from the lustrous white, to the creamy or nearly beige. However by sales, the most valued would seem to be the pure whites, or the faintly rose tinted whites. Some of the most valuable are not pearls from oysters, but from Conch and abalone. The Conch produces a pinkish pearl that is similar in color to the inside of its shell, where the abalone pearl may have a blue-green iridescence. These are very rare, and extremely expensive. Oysters however, particularly in the South Seas, produce both silver and gold-colored pearls as well as black. A process for culturing pearls was developed in Japan and patented in 1910. Since that time, growers have learned what mollusks and methods to use in producing cultured pearls of violet pastels, white, pink, orange, bronze, gold and more. For specific colors, pearls may be treated by irradiation or other methods to intensify or alter the color. Certainly, the most famous pearls in the world, have been of the natural white to cream shades. In a collection of jewelry from the Romanov family of Russia, there comes a necklace of incomparable size and quality, being 150" long, and consisting of pearls that measure from 8-20mm in width. It is said that pearl divers only ever saw two or three pearls of this size, in their entire lifetime. Another famous pearl, is the 16th century pear-shaped La Peregrina, which once belonged to Mary Stuart, queen of Scotland. It was bought in the 1960s by Richard Taylor for his wife Elizabeth Taylor, but her dog chewed it and the value was consequently reduced.
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