Category: Pearl Jewelry

The variety of conch most common in the Gulf’ of Mexico is the horse conch, Fasciolaria gigantea. It is long and rather trumpet-like. The interior is yellowish, sometimes golden, and occasionally a golden pearl is found. This species is widely distributed throughout the world, and its shell was used by the Norsemen and early clans. When the Spaniards and English first settled in the West Indies, they found an abundance of a beautiful conch not known in the old world. This was the queen conch or great pink conch, Strom-bus gigantea. Great numbers were shipped to England for use in manufacture, and the flesh of the animal was found to be highly nutritious. Also, pearls were found. The Queen conch is found only within a region embraced by the West Indies, the Bermuda’s and the south Florida coast. The outstanding characteristics of this conch are the extreme beauty of the interior of its shell, and the long, horny protuberances that spiral around the exterior.

Queen conchs often move in groups, like flocks of sheep, two hundred often being seen together near reefs. Each is equipped with two well-formed eyes, which are located on the extreme ends of flexible, stem-like organs, with a small elephant-like trunk at the tip, this being the mouth. When eating, the conch extends and contracts this at will. It sometimes extends to a length of four inches. The food consists of minute animal and vegetable life.

Professional conch fishermen known as “Iconics” usually get the conchs from a boat, using a water-glass and a long pole with an iron hook on one end. While one man takes care of the boat, the other leans over the side, locating the conch by the water-glass, slips the hook under the shell and brings the animal to the surface. Some fishermen prefer to dive for them. When Columbus first landed in the Bahamas, he found that the Indians owned large pink pearls of a kind unknown to Europeans. These were pearls made by Strom-bus giganteas. They were largely oval or elongated in shape, round conch pearls being rare. Pink, red, white, yellow and, occasionally, deep rich brown pearls are found; rarely a golden one. As the Bahamas and south Florida were settled these pearls appeared in London and Paris.

The larger and finer pearls drifted into the collections of crowned heads, and to the princes and rajahs of India. The crown of Sweden bears a large conch pearl from Key West. Conch pearls, however, seem relatively little known and appreciated in the United States. The finder of a large and perfect conch pearl offered it for sale, some time ago, in Miami, without getting a reasonable offer. New York gave the same result, but the pearl sold to a Bond Street jeweller in London for $10,000.

A high-necked waistcoat can be tasteful if added a pearl necklace; casual cotton T-shirts in multilayer will be special with a pearl waist chain. No matter in which ways that your wearing your pearls, you will enjoy different funs that a pearl jewel give you. Let’s see five most fashionable ways in wearing pearls.
a, Full popular as a necklace;

You have no reasons to complain that there is no appropriate evening gowns in your wardrobe. In fact, a plain one-piece skirt with elegant pearl necklace and pearl earrings will make you just a polite and cultured lady in official and formal occasions.

b, A hot season as a waist chain;

Wearing pearl waist chain is the new fashion of your unique experience, just wind a pearl chain around your waist, single layer or double layer, it is your choice.

c, Japanese fashion in hanging;

Slanting hanging a long strand pearls on your cloths let you looks special, it is a perfect matching with your casual or punk style dressing.

d, Used as belts or braces;

Make your own unique creative small bag with pearl belts or braces, then you will have your fashionable DIY exclusive style bag that easily catch people’s envious eyes.

e, Decorate your beautiful hair;

Make some hair accessories with pearls; use the full and soft pearls adorn your beautiful tresses that not only increase your elegance and fashion, but also let your hair full of glory in the public.

Spine plays an important role in our body by helping us stand erect and also by assisting in our movements. It is made up of vertebrae, a collection of small bones which are joined together by muscles and ligaments. These bones are separated at each interval by discs which act as cushions and greatly help in bending or facilitate the body”s movements without the bones coming in contact with each other. The spine, bearing most of our body weight is due to obvious reasons, subjected to regular wear and tear making it highly critical for us to take good care of it.

The vertebrae in the spine are divided into different regions, the cervical spine (the neck region), thoracic spine (chest region) and lumbar and sacral spine (the lower back region).

The spine protects the spinal cord which is a collection of crucial nerves that control all major movements and functions in our body. Spinal cord plays a major role in the central nervous system by communicating between the brain and the other parts of the body. Any problems in the spine immediately reflect on our body depending upon the affected region.

The convenience driven lifestyle of today full of material comforts, lack of exercises due to hectic schedules, long hours of sitting at work, wrong postures, excessive traveling are a few of the prime contributors to our spinal problems. Some however may also occur due to accidents or mishaps where the spine receives considerable amount of injury to render it critically affected. The most common problems found in spine are Disc Herniation, Spinal Stenosis, Spondylolisthesis, Vertebral Fractures and Lower Back Pain.

Patients with spinal problems usually show symptoms like sharp pain in the back which often radiates to arms and legs, numbness or tingling in arms or legs and progressive loss of strength. Irrespective of the extent of the pain, the spinal problems need immediate medical attention. Consulting a doctor with good knowledge and experience in this field becomes the primary objective. The team of highly efficient neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons at Oyster & Pearl Hospital makes it one of the best Spine Surgery Center.

Oyster & Pearl Hospital was founded by Dr. Amitha Phadnis and Dr. Avinash Phadnis. The orthopedic department of O&P with its Consultant Spine Surgeon like Dr. Rajesh Parasnis is providing the best available services to patients who come to O&P looking for effective treatments of their problems. With a highly competent and knowledgeable doctors on the panel and a facility well equipped with advanced medical equipments, the hospital is just the right place to undergo surgeries like Degenerative Spine Surgery, Minimal Invasive Surgery, Spondlylolisthesis Surgery, Vertebroplasty & Kyphoplasty, Spinal Trauma Treatment, Infection and Spinal Tumor Surgeries, Epidural block, Ozone Nucleolysis, Nucleoplasty and many more.

The full fledged facilities of the O&P hospital with the team of doctors whom you can trust to find solutions to your problems is one of the highly sought medical facilities in and around Pune.

Pearl that is used in jewelry making is usually cultured pearl. The pearl making process of mollusks can be hastened by inserting an irritant into the mollusk. The mollusk will surround this irritant with pearl. A cultured pearl is just like a natural pearl whose development is hastened by science. Some people are misled to think that cultured pearls are fake, but they are not. Anyway, when you buy pearl jewelry, consider the luster, thickness, color, smoothness, and shape of the pearl.

Experts look at the nacre thickness and quality when making quick judgment of the value of a pearl. According to expert pearl jewelers, nacre thickness determines how long a pearl can last, while the nacre quality affects luster. High quality pearl bestows excellent luster. Jewelry experts may have no problem distinguishing between a high quality and a low quality pearl, but consumers should check out the following.

1. Brilliance The luster is one important factor to look at when shopping for pearl jewelry. The luster of a fine pearl comes not just from the surface but also from within. The multiple layers inside a pearl gives it a distinctive glow, one that you will not notice on silver or gold jewelry. You can try to hold a pearl against a fluorescent light source. Turn the pearl to see if the luster remains uniform on all its surfaces.

2. Color A typical high quality pearl has color overtones. A rare pearl has rose colored overtones, distinct only upon close visual inspection. This rare pearl makes some of the most expensive jewelry pieces in the market. The cream colored counterpart is more common and, thus, less expensive. Natural colors are white, black, gray, gold, pink, green, and blue. Fake jewelry makers can dye a pearl to make it look like a natural pearl. In some cases, only a gemologist can identify a fake pearl among the genuine ones.

3. Blemishes No pearl is made by nature perfectly. Each pearl will have surface blemishes, which are only noticeable upon close inspection. Such surface imperfections can be seen upon pearl examination against a dark background using intense and soft light. Jewelry makers may ignore the blemishes as long as high luster is maintained.

4. Size and shape A big pearl is rare and more expensive. An expensive pearl is usually above 7 millimeters in diameter. The shape is also an important consideration. The perfect pearls are those with spherical shape, a characteristic that is quite rare. A perfectly spherical pearl could be one of the most expensive jewelry items in the market. On the other hand, there is the symmetrical pearl, one with a teardrop or pear shape. Such is more common than the previous one and is also more affordable. But if you want the cheapest, the baroque type can do. A baroque pearl has an irregular shape.