Showing posts with label Pearl Auctions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pearl Auctions. Show all posts

Thursday, 14 August 2014

Baroque Pearls Fast Becoming as Fashionable as Natural Colour Diamonds

Baroque Pearls are rapidly becoming as fashionable as Natural Colour Diamonds and the increased popularity of Baroque Pearls is sending prices upwards. Similar to what happened with Natural Colour Diamonds in the 1990's where colour diamonds were previously seen to be an unwanted by-product and sold off cheaply to now collecting huge prices per carat for pink, blue and red diamonds.
  

No two Baroque Pearls are the same each being extremely unique in shape and character and when put alongside a traditional round pearl, they make them seem boring in comparison. Baroque Pearls are often much larger than traditional round pearls with sizes of 25mm in length commonly seen while a round pearl with diameters around 14mm or above are quite hard to find.

Current wholesale price for a 25mm Baroque Pearl is approximately $800 while a smaller 15mm Baroque Pearl is selling for $300. These prices are expected to soon escalate as popularity begins to pickup further momentum. Similar to Natural Colour Diamonds, only a tiny percentage of world wide production are Baroque so with limited supply and demand growing prices are expected to sky rocket in the near future.    

Monday, 14 January 2013

Pearl Grading For Fair Trade South Sea Pearls

South Sea Pearls are commonly graded to "AAAA" standards against the 4 virtues of fine pearls. These virtues are as follows:

A – Lustre Grade

A – Surface Grade

A – Shape Grade

A – Colour Grade

Only the highest quality pearls achieve an "A" grade rating for each of the 4 virtues and these are the only pearls which can be classified as "AAAA" quality pearls. For instance if a pearl being graded had an "A" grading for each virtue for lustre, surface and shape but had poor grading for colour. The pearl overall grading would be "AAA". If the pearl also had a poor grading for surface the overall pearl grading would be "AA".

Although other grading methods are used by various companies around the world, we have found this grading method is the one most commonly adopted by the international pearl auctions. For our Fair Trade South Sea Pearl inventory, we utilise this same "AAAA" standard to grade the pearls. Take a look at our web-store at http://www.south-sea-pearl.com.au/ to compare prices for the various pearl grades.