A great irony of pearl history is that the least expensive cultured pearl product in the market today rivals the quality of the most expensive natural pearls ever found. The price-value anomaly is ...

Are you curious about freshwater vs saltwater pearls? Those shiny gems from the sea that shine so beautifully? Well, there are two special kinds: freshwater pearls and saltwater pearls. Think about ...

The Abernethy Pearl has sold for £93,951 ($123,000) at auction, a record price for a Scottish freshwater pearl. The pearl was the star lot of Lyon & Turnbull’s Cairncross Collection auction on August ...

One of the largest freshwater pearls found in Scottish history is heading to auction for the first time, six decades on from its discovery. Known as the Abernethy Pearl, it is expected to command ...

The Sleeping Lion Pearl, which once belonged to Catherine the Great and believed to be the world's largest freshwater pearl, is displayed before being auctioned in the Hague, Netherlands on May 28, ...

CAMDEN, Tenn. (WKRN) — Did you know that one of nature’s most beautiful gemstones, the freshwater pearl, is the official state gem of Tennessee? That’s because the only freshwater pearl farm in North ...

The world’s largest known freshwater pearl is going on sale at a public auction in the Netherlands next week. Known as “The Sleeping Lion” due to its unique shape, the rare natural object weighs ...

"I may live in these earrings. I work at an animal hospital and they're cute, well made, and not childish. Just what I hoped ...

The world's largest known freshwater pearl, which once belonged to the Russian Empress Catherine the Great, has been sold for $494,000 at auction in the Netherlands. The Sleeping Lion Pearl weighs ...

During a joint committee meeting on Climate, Environment, and Energy in the Oireachtas, it became clear that the freshwater ...