JCK Online - October 1, 2006

“The pearl market has never been better,” says Peter Bazar of Imperial-Deltah Pearls, New York. “The quantities, quality, and variety of pearls used in so many different jewelry manipulations continue.” While the century-old traditional akoyas haven’t made a major comeback from their near extinction in the 1990s, they still hold the No.

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