How to distinguish real, natural pearls from artificial, fakes, jewelry: methods of testing for authenticity at home. What a real pearl looks like: description, photo

Natural pearls: differences from fake and methods for determining authenticity at home.

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The variety of accessories from pearls sometimes doubts the doubt about its origin. It is very difficult to distinguish artificial stone from natural, without special skills. Nevertheless, using simple methods of checking the properties of pearls, you can protect yourself from purchasing a cheap fake.

What a real pearl looks like: description, photo

An elite accessory is considered a product made of natural natural pearls (wild). In turn, it is divided into:

1. Sea - is formed in the form of a right round shape, has a beautiful bright brilliance. He matures in the sink for several years. The life cycle is about 10 years. In one mantle can be from one to three pearls. After some time, sea stones fade slightly, due to erasing the thin layer of mother of pearl. The color is not only white, but various bright and even black.

2. freshwater - extracted from mollusks living in rivers and lakes. The number of pearl pewings in one sink can be from 12 to 16. They look dim, the shine is muffled. There can be various shapes, but mainly oval. Persistent to washing, due to the deep and dense mother -of -pearl layer. As a rule of a dairy shade. You can not grow black or pink river pearls.

Since the price of wild pearls is very significant, a cultivated natural pearl serves as an alternative to it.

The formation of natural and grown stones is the same. The only difference is that in one option, the formation of the pearls of foreign extraneous individuals provokes, and in another, a person contributes to ripening, by introducing an implant into mollusk.

Pearls are grown with the help of man in both marine and fresh water.

The quality and quantity depends on the period of the growth of the oyster:

5 - 9 months a thin, fragile layer of pearl
18 months - year - stable and thick

The type and volume of a cultivated pearl can be planned in advance, unlike the wild, which is formed naturally.

There are several varieties of an implanted sink, consider the most common:

Variety	Color	The size	The form	Shine	Price
"AKOYA"	White Creamy-pounded Silver or ecrury Occasionally green	2-10	Round flat	Bright clean	Acceptable
"Tahitian"	Dark Sometimes black	Very large 8.5-20	Round	Individual for each individual pearl, with coal, silver, green and chocolate overtones	High
"South Sea Pearls"	Wide spectrum and different shades Most often White Silver Golden white	Large 1o - 22	Round	Deep saturated	Most expensive
"Cortez"	Silver-gray Brown Golden	8-12	Baroque Circularly Oval	Has extraordinary color overflows	Expensive
"Kasumi"	White Pale pink Lavender Lilac-violet Grey Gold Black with green tint	15-20	Baroque Hollow -shaped The surface is uneven and tuberous	Incredibly rainbow and transfused	Very expensive
"Keshi"	Dark Golden	4-15	Irregular shape with a grain	Strong mother -of -pearl and shine	Price from democratic to the road
"Mabe"	Lilac (lavender) with a pink tint	5-10	Blistry	Good with purple-lilac overtones	Low
"Biwa"	Classic pearl-white Pink-cream Shades of blue, green Grey Yellowish-pink	6-12	Uneven oblong Oval Elongated	Beautiful shine close to natural	Inexpensive
River, freshwater	From dark purple to light pink and white	Any	Different unthinkable More often - Baroque Occasionally round	Bright	Democratic

How to distinguish real, natural pearls from artificial, fakes, jewelry: methods for testing for authenticity at home

Demand for a fashion accessory entailed the onset of a large number of fakes.

To protect yourself, from the acquisition of artificial pearls instead of natural, use the verified methods of identifying the existing differences:

Natural mineral is an expensive purchase. The low cost speaks of imitated pearls.
Copies are made of light materials, while the original consists of a heavy mother of pearl. Therefore, natural stone should have a tangible weight compared to artificial.
Draw a stone on the surface of the teeth: the creaking sound indicates the authenticity of the purchase. Absence - about fake.
Try to throw one of the pebbles of the product: if it jumped like a ball - real.
Look at the necklace: natural pearls have a different shape and dimensions, in the process of forming in a natural way they are not similar to each other. The presence of pebbles “one to one” confirms the artificial production product.
A beautiful bright shine is a natural product. Black pebbles - fake.
In this stone, a hole for attaching a thread has no clear boundaries. In the artificial, an outflow of layers of mother of pearl is clearly apparently.
Sandy and rough structure is inherent only in natural pearls.
Natural or artificially grown stone does not cold even in the heat. Plastic takes the surrounding temperature.
A real bead gives a pale blue shine, and synthetic-green with pink stains

Each natural pearl pebble is unique in appearance. When preparing for the purchase, study the properties of each type, apply these elementary methods for testing authenticity. To identify the naturalness of an expensive accessory, it is better to contact a professional, since primary skills do not always give a 100% result of the correct determination.