For more than 40 years Paspaley Pearling Company has provided the world gem market with the largest selection of fine quality Australian South Sea Pearls.
Major pearl and gem dealers purchase loose pearls directly from Paspaley Pearls, Australia to service their world-wide distribution networks. Paspaley Pearls is particulary renowned for it's specialized pearlgrading, offering customers an unprecedented selection of strands and matched goods of its peerless 'South Seas Pearls'.

The G.I.E. Pearls de Tahiti is a special non-profit economic interest group, whose aim is to promote Tahitian pearls and their by-products in overseas markets.The French Polynesia Assembly has adopted measures revising the classification of Tahiti cultured pearls by prohibiting all inferior quality pearls from being sold locally as well as from being exported.

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Akoya cultured pearls

"Approximately 100 years ago, Japan succeeded in cultivating Akoya pearls. Since that time, Akoya cultured pearls have been coveted, worn and loved by people of all ages not only in Japan but in countries throughout the world. Why is this? It is because Akoya cultured pearls have their own unique splendor.

" Welcome to American Pearl, the Internet's Premier online source for premium quality cultured pearls and pearl jewelry of all types such as necklace, rings, earrings, bracelets and more. American Pearl is your direct connection to variety of cultured pearls from all over the world from Japanese Akoya Pearls to South Sea Pearls such as the Black Tahitian Pearls.
If you've been to a jewelry store that trades in the highest quality pearl strands, you'll know that those strands are usually had only at the pearliest prices. American Pearl offers these same finer-quality cultured Pearls at a fraction of traditional-store prices. This we can do because we are owned and operated by a major American pearl importer: we're the cyberspace arm of the source itself. Think of us as Oysters Direct. " more