Is that jewelry made of REAL pearls? If you want REAL GENUINE NATURAL PEARLS, be alert for the following terms: SHELL PEARL These are not pearls at all, but man-made beads concocted from ground shell! “Shell...
Jewelry shoppers are only interested in the lustrous inner layer (called the nacre or mother-of-pearl layer) of a mollusk’s shell. Mollusks such as mussels, clams and oysters have soft inner bodies and hard...