Pearl Perspectives

Welcome! We are passionate about pearls and committed to helping you increase your share of this market.

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

Peter Bazar, Imperial Deltah for CPAA (Maricopa room)
Basic - Intermediate. What does it takes to be a player and winner as a retailer in the very exciting arena of cultured pearls?

This session describes today’s landscape with regard to distribution of cultured pearls, sales of cultured pearls, including profit margins,

classifications of cultured pearls being successfully sold at retail, and tips for consumer profiling to develop further cultured pearl sales in your store

A Traveling Exhibition of
Extraordinary and Incredible
Cultured
and Natural Pearls

Follow this epic journey across America as the Capitol make its way from East to West and back again

Tucson, Ariz. – Buyers, sellers, collectors, and admirers of nature’s treasures in almost every form imaginable gather in Tucson for the 56th annual Tucson Gem, Mineral, & Fossil Showcase

January 30-February 14, 2010. This year there are 44 individual shows at 42 different venues throughout the Metropolitan Tucson area. Thousands of individual vendors from all over the world are participating.

Anybody looking for treasure will find it in one of thousands of vendor booths at this world-renowned event.

Finished jewelry, loose gems, geodes, raw minerals, carvings, baskets, beads, chimes, clothing, furniture, or million year-old fossils will change hands and dazzle audiences of all ages and origins! A complete listing of shows and locations is at

www.visittucson.org/gemshow.

The two cornerstone shows are the American Gem Trade Association (AGTA) Gem FairTM, which is wholesale-only, and runs February 2-7, and the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show, which is open to the public and runs February 11-14. Both shows are at the Tucson Convention Center (TCC).

The AGTA GemFair™ Tucson is the world’s premier tradeshow for colored gemstones. Featuring the greatest array of colored gemstone and cultured pearl dealers from the US and Canada. According to organizers,

“AGTA GemFair is where colored gemstone trends are born, where new discoveries are shared, and where the jewelry industry meets…”
This year’s theme of the Tucson Gem & Mineral ShowTM, The Main Show, at the TCC is “Gem and Gem Minerals”. The show is run by the Tucson Gem & Mineral Society (TGMS), and started 56 years ago in the parking lot of an elementary school.

All other “satellite” shows developed as a result of the popularity and fame of the TGMS show throughout the years. Lectures and seminars are held Thursday through Sunday during show week at the TCC and are open to the public and free of charge.

Visit

2010show for details.

Anne Boleyn's Pearls refer to a signature piece of jewelry worn by the 16th-century Queen of England as seen in her famous portrait, consisting of a single strand of pearls with a gold "B" pendant hanging from the center, and three tear-drop pearls suspended from under the letter "B." The queen is seen wearing this pearl necklace in most of her portraits painted during this period. During her short period of rule that lasted from 1533 to 1536, she presided over a magnificent court, renowned for its extravagance, with large sums of money being spent on gowns, jewels, head-dresses, ostrich- feather fans, riding equipment, furniture and upholstery, to maintain the ostentatious life-style required by her status. The wearing of pearl-studded gowns became fashionable during this period and reached a climax during the period of rule of Anne Boleyn's daughter Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603), who is reported to have owned over 3,000 pearl embroidered dresses.

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