Pearl Perspectives

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The Socialistic Republic of Vietnam stretches over a total length of 1,600 kilometers along the eastern coast of Lower India and borders on the South China Sea. The northern part of which is named the Gulf of Tongking. In the north, the country is only 600 kilometers wide and borders on China, while on the western border are Laos and Cambodia, which Vietnam had occupied during the nineteen seventies.

A retired army officer in southern Vietnam is harboring what he called a “state secret,” a method to produce black pearls from freshwater oysters. Once thought only possible in marine oysters.

It is our belief an enhanced knowledge of the cultured pearl product category results in greater sales and an increased passion for pearls.

The Nine Pearls, sometimes known as the Nava Moti (or nine gems, or "mani"), are a group of sacred gemstones described in the Vedic text known as the Garuda Purana. Enumerated as the Oyster Pearl, Conch Pearl, Cobra Pearl, Boar Pearl, Elephant Pearl, Bamboo Pearl, Whale Pearl, Fish Pearl, and Cloud Pearl, these gems were later documented in the treatise Brihat-Samhita ("The Great Compilation") of Varahamihira, the Indian mathematician. The first documented contact with these artifacts by the Western world is described in the sole volume of 18th Century scientist Albertus Seba, entitled Cabinet of Natural Curiosities. Therein, a large collection of Bezoar stones and non-oyster pearls were hand-sketched, and the collection of these items were on display in a forum which was the precursor of the modern day museum. Today, the original 446-plate volume, part of the greater work Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri Accurata Descriptio, is on permanent exhibit at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, Netherlands.