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CULTURED PEARL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA PRESENTS:

 

MAGICAL GIFTS OF NATURE IN A TRAVELING EXHIBITION OF EXTRAORDINARY

AND INCREDIBLE  CULTURED AND NATURAL PEARLS 

 The CPAA Board of directors is proud to announce that the first ever traveling exhibition will make its premier at the AGTA Tucson Show in February 6th – 11th, 2008.

The exhibition consists of the CPAA’s members most extraordinary and incredible cultured and natural pearls. The CPAA exhibit will be on the main floor of the exhibition hall and forms a pavilion area with the Smithsonian exhibit. On display will be various types of extraordinary pearls never exhibited in public together as a group before.

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Imperial buys largest lot of Tahitian Pearls buy US Company. 

 

Come see what we made from this lot at AGTA Tucson and IJO Colorado Springs!! 

 

 

 

 

 

While Akoya farmers in Japan and China are labeling everything “product of Japan ...”  Pinctada margaritifera and P. maxima farmers in other regions of the world use country of origin to their advantage.

 

 

 

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2008 Japanese Akoya Pearl Crop

 

From December until the present auctions for "Koshimono" hamaage have been taking place in Japan. Koshimono represents the crop of oysters that have been allowed to pass two summers in the water due to favorable water and climate conditions. These pearls will usually have better nacre coating and luster than those oysters left in the water for only one summer. This years crop is much better in quality than many of the previous years which means there will be more finer quality pearls available this year.
One unforseen result of the favorable growing conditions is that the pearls have grown larger than originally designed. For example, a nucleus implanted in an oyster to grow 7-7.5 MM pearls has now produced 7.5-8 MM pearls instead. Since pearls are sold in auction by weight, most of the cultivators try to grow larger size pearls which means that there will be more of the larger sizes and fewer smaller sizes available. We are going to Japan in February for our first buying trip of the year and we will give a more comprehensive report at that time.

 

 

 

 

2008 Pearl Commission Report released

 


Last week, CIBJO's Pearl Commission released its 2008 Pearl Commission Report to be read at the CIBJO 2008 Congress on April 14-16 at the Grossvenor House hotel in Dubai, UEA. The Commission is headed by Martin Coeroli (president) from French Polynesia and Shigeru Akamatsu (vice president) from Japan.

As stated in the press release, the Pearl Steering Committee has identified three main topics of discussions at the 2008 CIBJO Congress in Dubai, which include:
• The disclosure of traditional or modern luster enhancement;
• The restriction of the nature and type of beads used for cultured pearls to nacreous material only; and
• A solution to the issue of nacre thickness, which affects the durability of pearls cultured in seawater.


In the wake that the demand for official reports on [natural] pearls and cultured pearls is constantly on the rise, the Pearl Steering Committee is thoroughly investigating new developments in the pearl and cultured pearl industry. Such reports inform on the origin of the pearls and their specific gemological characteristics

 

 

 

 Atlas South Sea Pearl Ltd

 

Pearl farmer Atlas South Sea Pearl Ltd says it expects its harvest to increase in 2008

The Western Australia-based company, which specialises in producing white, silver and gold South Sea pearls, harvested 185,600 pearls in 2007, down from 234,200 in 2006.

Atlas said although the quantity of pearls harvested declined in 2007, the average pearl size was larger.

It expects to harvest more than 200,000 pearls in 2008.

The company said pearl quality has been enhanced over the past few years.

"The ongoing genetics research that is being undertaken with James Cook University (in Townsville) is already having a positive impact on the company's farming practices," it said.

"Breeding has commenced with selected oyster families with strong growth traits."

Through its Indonesian subsidiary, PT Cendana Indopearls, Atlas operates pearl farms across the Indonesian archipelago, including Bali, Lombok and West Papua.

 

 

 

 

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