FRESHWATER PEARL EARRINGS Set in 92.5 Strlng Silver - eBay Pearl, Pendants Lockets, Fine Jewellery, Jewellery Watches. (end time 11-Nov-09 14:00:46 AEDST)


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Type:	Earrings	Length:	4.5 cm
Sub-Type:	Studs	Metal:	Silver
Main Gemstone:	Pearl	Gold Quality:	--
Gemstone Shape/ Cut:	--	Designer:	Melanie Woods
Gemstone Carat Weight:	--	Condition:	New

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Stunning White Freshwater Pearl Earrings set in 92.5 Sterling Silver

These gorgeous white freshwater pearl earrings have an 5mm and 3mm pearls set in a 92.5 stirling silver feature. .Measurements of these earrings are 45mm by 25mm.

My photography does not do justice to these lovely earrings.

Our pearls are from a very special supplier in Java with the best price for you. These gorgeous earrings made just for us with our 18 years of experience in this market we can pass on the savings, and we offer wholesale prices just for our ebay customers.

We use fair trade practices and go directly to the source to give you the best price for the quality that we pride ourselves in offering.

Our jewellery is custom designed and crafted for Melanie Woods -

you will not find the same pieces anywhere else.

Welcome to my eBay listing where you have access to designer pieces direct from the wholesale clearance showroom to you at prices as little as 10% of the retail price!

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Testimonials from other happy Buyers:

Buyer- happyfeetoz ( 2480

Beautiful earrings, quickly posted - have just ordered two more sets!!!!!

Buyer- annah2825 ( 100

Absolutely beautiful!! And so comfortable to wear! Superb ebayer - A++++++++++++

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A pleasure to do business with this buyer. A+++ Thank you!

Buyer- hsanli85 ( 34

Prompt delivery and great service! Will not hesitate to use again!

Buyer- baker3331 ( 68

Gorgeous ring, fantastic seller, brilliant communication, super fast postage, A+

Buyer- princesslindalou70 ( 120

great jewels - This is stunning -: Thanks - perfect all round Seller

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My pearls are especially made, coloured and quality controlled directly from the pearl farms, so they are unique to my collections.

Dress up your outfit from casual to formal day to evening. Pearls are a timeless classic.

I’ve have been designing, producing and selling jewellery for over 20 years and selling on ebay since 2001.

I’ve sold thousands of pieces of jewellery to eBayers like you all over the world, with many of them developing a loyal following.

I love real silver, gems and pearls and feel privileged to create such classic fashion pieces that my customers tell me they love as much now as they did many years ago with all of the memories in between.

Mix and match from our extensive collections in your own special way to express your individual flair. If we can help in any way ask us for a recommended match if you would like to make a set, we are assist you in any way. Also please note that our showroom has more stock than we can list so you can always ask if we have an alternative size or colour.

This is superb fashion jewellery that will become a very wise investment as the prices of silver and gold only go up.

If you do a little research you will find that silver is at present undervalued since it is now also recently used in the electronics industry and not recycled like gold jewellery.

Because of this we have a shortage of silver and one day it will spike dramatically and you can cash in or enjoy your treasure’s value.

My whole life is dedicated to designing jewellery that you will love for a lifetime at a fraction of the prices that you would normally pay in jewellery stores.

These same pieces are available in retail outlets throughout Australia, the U.K., Fiji, New Zealand, EU, and the U.S for up to 1000% more than you will buy them from on my very special eBay site.

You have access to my end of lines, samples and excess stock for a fraction of what you would normally pay.

I am continuously uploading new stock for you to offer variety, it is the spice of life after all !

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Visit my ebay store for more gorgeous designs that are absolutely full silver, generously set gemstones and expertly hand made just for you at prices that come straight from the importer, me!

I get these pieces straight from my silver smiths, gem cutters and suppliers throughout Asia, after doing all of the hard work for you to find the smiths, choose the stones and pearls, and quality control every piece you actually have access to previously business only stock prices.

If you see something you love please be aware that our stocks sell out very fast, our regular customers know us, watch new listings and pounce on our new lines so don’t miss out and bid now or better still go and browse our shop for more variety than ever before. I have a lot of party plan sellers that are doing very well making an extra income with these pieces and these prices on selling to friends and colleagues.

Our customers recommend us because they get so many comments wearing our pieces, it is not your regular eBay stock, so you can wear your jewels with pride and share the bargains or perhaps keep this as our little secret.

We sell jewellery to a high standard and as you might find with other cheap silver suppliers that sell very cheap silver that is either as thin as tin foil, or it is cut with cheaper metals.

Please note that silver and gems are a set international price so if something seems too cheap to be true it very often is.

Ask the silver content, it should be 92.5% solid silver, not just silver as in the colour!

Gemstones should not be called crystals, eg- ruby crystal this can be simply glass, especially from China sources, I often check out my competition and find this to be the case. Quality in gemstones can vary dramatically and can be enhanced in a photograph, in our case it is often difficult to show off the gorgeous reflective qualities.

We 100% guarantee that our silver is full 92.5% silver, generously set with genuine pearls and gemstones, and most of our pieces have our logo actually stamped on the piece.

Our gemstones are also gorgeous quality and a generous grading for you.

At this price you’d be very wise to take advantage of my discounted shipping rate on all additional items.

Bid now with confidence and you can have this to wear this weekend to your upcoming event!

After you shop with me, you’ll never want to pay retail again, and I wont blame you !

All you have to do is sit back and enjoy the bargains!

With many thousands of items sold on ebay alone, you can be assured that you’ll always be able to find the perfect accessories.

SHIPPING WITHIN AUSTRALIA

Due to fluctuating shipping costs around Australia we only use express post satchels. This gives you the fastest postage possible with a tracking number.

We combine all postage in one when we send your jewellery. All your pieces following the first piece is free when paid for and sent together.

SHIPPING WORLDWIDE

We offer the most cost effective prices possible, If you buy more than one piece to send together you pay the highest item's postage then 1 Pound per item that follows.

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Why do I sell in Pounds on uk ebay if I am an Australian seller?

Many years back my lovely friend Michaela, that lives in the U.K. started this site for me to sell my jewellery.

She has since passed the store on to me and I have taken it over in Australia.

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About Pearls-

Here is a little insight into the world, the creation and most importantly the care of Cultured Pearls

Like amber, not a stone - pearls are formed by shellfish such as oysters and mussels to protect their delicate bodies from irritants such as grains of sand trapped within their shells. Smooth layers of calcium carbonate are built up around the irritant to slowly form a pearl.

They can even be formed by snails - but rarely, and have been used in jewellery for 6000 years

Since perhaps only one in 30 or 40 molluscs will contain a pearl, and they are found at depths of about 15 metres, and so can be dangerous to harvest, man has found ways of cultivating them. The process is quite simple - a foreign body, usually a mother o' pearl sphere, is inserted and the shellfish will secrete a layer of natural pearl around it. It is therefore not easy to distinguish a natural pearl from a cultured one, as there is a layer of real pearl on the surface of the cultured one.

Natural pearls of any size can take years to form, and are much more valuable than cultured pearls. The vast majority of pearls nowadays are cultured and their value depends on the thickness of the pearl layer, its lustre, shape and its colour.

The history and properties of pearls

In its purity, liquid beauty, and charm of romantic and poetical association the pearl--aristocrat of gems--leads even its peers of the highest rank, the diamond, emerald, ruby, and sapphire.

The sea-gem has throughout all recorded time formed the fitting necklace of feminine royalty and famous beauty; the state decorations of dusky Oriental potentates and their principal treasures have been pearls.

From the ocean's bed and the turgid streams of midland North America, from almost anywhere that is the habitat of the oyster or the humble mussel come these pale, lustrous treasures that may prove to be almost priceless.

The existence and recognition of the beauty of the pearl as a personal ornament and treasure is undoubtedly prehistoric on every continent.

The discoverers and conquistadores from old Spain found quantities of them in the western Indies, on the Spanish Main, in Florida, Mexico, and Peru; the mound-builders of North America possessed them; in the far East they were cherished centuries before the then Western world of Europe knew them; there is said to be a word meaning a pearl in a Chinese dictionary four thousand years old, and who knows how old is their presence in India.

Pearls were in the jewel caskets of Egypt's Ptolemies; and the first jewel mentioned in the most ancient decipherable and translatable writings extant is the pearl, and its identity is unquestioned, because the gem of the sea is solitary among jewels and is not to be confounded with the hard mineral gems which, even to-day, with all the advance in scientific knowledge, are constantly becoming mixed in the minds of men.

From written records the modern ken of pearls extends back about twenty-three hundred years, and we hear of them in the writings of Pliny, the indefatigable investigator and disseminator of what he believed to be facts about almost everything in nature, who four hundred years later gathered together the knowledge of his day about pearls and included it in his voluminous literary grist.

In the technical literature of the United States National Museum, the pearl is coldly and remorselessly comprehended under the generic term "carbonate of lime" along with the beautiful but less valued coral, which is also a product of the sea; and marble, which concerns architects and sculptors, more than gem fanciers; and calcite and aragonite, which are varieties of satin spar and far down in the gem stone scale of hardness.

It seems almost like desecration to reduce the lustrous pearl of peerless beauty and royal and romantic associations to the concrete mineralogical base of carbonate of lime; but thus are the insistent requirements of the mineralogists conserved.

Therefore, pearls are concretions of carbonate of lime found in the shells of certain species of molluscs. An irritation of the animal's mantle promotes an abnormal secretory process, the cause of the irritation being the introduction into the shell of some minute foreign substance, sometimes a grain of sand.

The lustre of pearls is nacreous, which means resembling mother-of-pearl, a lustre due to the minute undulations of the edges of alternate layers of carbonate of lime and membrane.

The lustre of some pearls exists only on the surface; the outer surface of others may be dull and the inner lustrous. The specific gravity of the pearl is 2.5 to 2.7; hardness, 2.5 to 3.5.

The shape varies and the range of size and weight is great. The smallest pearl in commerce is less than the head of a pin; the largest pearl known is in the Beresford Hope collection in the Museum at South Kensington, London. Its length is two inches and circumference four and a half inches. It weighs three ounces (1818 grains).

Although the whiteness of the pearl is constantly used for comparison, pearls range in colour from an opaque white through pink, yellow, salmon, fawn, purple, red, green, brown, blue, black, and in fact every colour and several shades of each; some pearls are also iridescent. The colour and lustre are generally that of the interior shell surface against which the pearl was formed.

The beauty and value of the pearl, in brief, depend upon colour, texture, or "skin" transparency or "water," lustre, and form; pearls most desired are round or pear-shaped, without blemish, and having the highest degree of lustre.

The queen of existing pearls is La Pellegrina now in the Museum of Zosima, Moscow, Russia. La Pellegrina is perfectly round and of an unrivalled lustre. It weighs 112 grains.

While individual pearls or strands of them may be worth a prince's ransom, their beauty and value are not immutable; pearls may deteriorate with age or be sullied by the action of gases, vapours, or acids, and the known methods for their restoration to their original appearance and value are not always successful.

Fine pearls should be carefully wiped with a clean soft cloth after they have been worn or exposed, and kept wrapped in a similar fabric in a tightly closed casket.

Pearls are found in nearly all bivalves with nacreous shells, but the principal supply is derived from a comparatively few families, led by the aviculidae, Unionidae, and Mytillidae.

The first group includes the pearl oyster of the Indian and Pacific oceans, from which has come the bulk of the world's pearls; the second includes the unio, or fresh-water mussel of North America; and the third is a family of conchiferous molluscs, mostly marine, the typical gems being Mytilius edulis, or true mussel, which has a wedge-shaped cell and moors itself to piles and stones by a strong coarse byssus of flaxy or silky-looking fibres.

The distribution of these molluscs is world-wide.

"In all ages, pearls have been the social insignia of rank among the highly civilised," writes W. R. Cattelle in his standard book The Pearl. First lavishly used by the princes of the East for the adornment of their royal persons.

As the course of empire trended westward the pearl followed the flag of the conquerors, and thus, in time, as Rome's power and affluence grew into world-control, her treasure of pearls grew to vast proportions and became identified with the social eminence and arrogance of the Caesars and patrician Rome.

To-day the market for the best in pearls of recent finding, as for all new products of precious stones, or for famous jewels, whose owners' changing fortunes bring them to the parting, is within the new regime of Croesus represented by the multi-millionaires of the United States.

The world's best buyers of jewels are not always as willing to have their princely expenditures known as is generally believed, and the names of some of America's heaviest purchasers of gems have not been revealed by the dealers.

It is authoritatively stated that the finest single strand of large pearls in existence was recently acquired by a Western millionaire of the United States.

The strand is composed of thirty-seven pearls ranging from eighteen to fifty-two and three-quarter grains each, the latter being the largest central pearl. The pearls combined weigh 979 3/4 grains, and the strand is said to have cost its possessor $400,000.

The physical properties of pearls, such as hardness and luster, and the care of pearls, keeping them away from acid, heat, and moisture

Having considered the factors bearing on the value of pearls, we will next consider briefly their physical properties.

The specific gravity is less definite than with minerals and varies between 2.65 and 2.70. It may be even higher for pink pearls.

Physical Properties. In hardness pearls also vary, ranging between 3 1/2 and 4 on Mohs' scale.

They are thus very soft and easily worn or scratched by hard usage. A case showing the rather rapid wearing away of pearls recently came to the attention of the writer.

A pendant in the shape of a Latin cross had been made of round pearls which had been drilled and strung on two slender gold rods to form the cross. The pearls were free to rotate on the wires.

After a period of some twenty or more years of wear the pearls had all become distinctly cylindrical in shape, the rubbing against the garments over which the pendant had been worn having been sufficient to grind away the soft material to that extent.

The luster was still good, the pearls having virtually been "peeled" very slowly by abrasion.

Care of Pearls.

This example suggests the great care that should be taken by owners of fine pearls to prevent undue rubbing or wear of these valuable but not extremely durable gems.

They should be carefully wiped after being worn to remove dust and then put away in a tightly closed case.

Pearls should never be allowed to come in contact with any acid, not even weak acids like lemonade, or punch or vinegar, as, being largely calcium carbonate they are very easily acted upon by acids, and a mere touch with an acid might ruin the surface lustre.

Being partly organic in nature, pearls are not everlasting, but must eventually decay, as is shown by the powdery condition of very old pearls that have been found with mummies or in ancient ruins.

The organic matter has yielded to bacterial attack and decayed, leaving only the powdery mineral matter behind.

As heat and moisture are the conditions most conducive to the growth of bacteria, and hence to decay, it would follow that fine pearls should be kept in a dry cool place when not in use.

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