Natural Abalone Pearl Pendant
& Loose Pearls

Exquisite antique and modern natural abalone pearl pendants and loose pearls for sale.

Abalone Pearl Color: green and pink Shape: round Weight: Size: 6.5mm Metal: 14 kt gold More Photos Price: $594.00

Abalone Pearl Color: Iridescent blue, green, silver Shape: Button & Baroque Size: Large Pearl 46mm or 1.8 inches Small Pearl 9mm Metal: 10K Gold More Photos Price: $3,329

Abalone Pearl Color: Strong vibrant iridescent blues, mauves, purple, electric green with overtones of orange. Shape: Baroque Weight: 260 Carats Size: 9.2cm (3.5in) in length, 5cm (2in) in width & 2cm (0.79in) at the highest point More Photos Price: $14,460

Abalone Pearl Color: incredibly vivid intense blues and greens and flashes of mauves oranges and purples Shape: Wing shape Size: 98 x 29 x 5mm More Photos Price: $16,800 Contact Kari to purchase this pearl. Mention "Gorgeous Natural Abalone Wing Shaped Pearl".

Abalone Pearl Color: Iridescent greens and blues Shape: Baroque Weight: 175 carats Size: 3 7/8" x 1 5/8 inches More Photos Price: $5,000 New Price

Abalone Pearl Color: multicolored Shape: Horn shape Weight: 118 carats Size: 7.5 mm More Photos Price: $33,318 Contact Kari here to purchase this pearl.

Abalone Pearl Color: Blues & Greens - Iridescence Shape: Typical Horn Shape Weight: 22 carats Size: 52mm x 25mm x 13mm - 2" x 1" Inches More Photos Price: $1,100

Abalone Pearl Color: Iridescent Shape: great white shark Weight: 54.6cts Size: 3 inches x 1 inch More Photos Price: $12,500 Contact Kari to purchase this pearl. Mention "Great White Shark".

Abalone Pearl Color: Green/Deep Blues/Gold Shape: Rounded teardrop Weight: 45 Carats Size: 27 x 23 x 16mm More Photos Price: $19,800 Contact Kari to purchase this pearl.

Abalone Pearl Color: Iridescence Shape: Baroque Weight: 11.62 carats Size: 17 x 16.5 x 9mm More Photos Price: $565

Abalone Pearl Color: Iridescence Shape: Oval Baroque Weight: 10.23 carats Size: 24 x 12 x 7.5mm More Photos Price: $565

Abalone Pearl Color: Greenish Blue Iridescent Shape: dugout canoe Weight: Approx. 42 carats Size: 69 x 19mm More Photos Price: $3,430 Or Best Offer!

Abalone Pearl Color: Multicolored Shape: Horn Weight: 15.1cts Size: 31mm x 11.5mm Price: $1,080

Abalone Pearl Color: blue, silver, pink Shape: oval/baroque Weight: 45 carats Size: 76 x 56 x 75mm More Photos Price: $18,000 Contact Kari to purchase this pearl.

Abalone Pearl Color: silvery-white shading to dove-grey with a pink and blue orient Shape: Baroque Weight: 212.5 carats Size: 47x47x21mm More Photos Price: $62,500 Contact Kari to purchase this pearl. Mention 212ct White Abalone Pearl.

Abalone Pearl Color: Iridescence Shape: Oval baroque Weight: 9.06 carats Size: 29 x 12 x 4.5mm More Photos Price: $565

Abalone Pearl Color: Multicolored Shape: Horn Weight: 145.63 carats Size: 50 x 36mm Certificate: GIA, New York More Photos Price: $18,000 Contact Kari to purchase this pearl. Mention "145 carat abalone pearl"

Kunz in his 1908 book of pearls says this about abalone pearls.

The abalones (Haliotidae) found on the coasts of California, Japan, New Zealand, and other localities in the Pacific, secrete pearly concretions, sometimes with fine luster.

Abalone pearls are especially interesting on account of their brilliant and unusual colors. Green predominates, but blue and yellow also occur. Although commonly very small, some of the well-formed ones exceed seventy-five grains in weight, and those of irregular shape may be very much larger. The ear-shells also produce many irregular pearly masses. Their beautiful greenish or bluish tints adopt them for artistic jeweled objects such as the body of a fly or of a beetle.

Abalones occur in many inshore tropical and semi-tropical waters, and particularly in the marginal waters of the Pacific. They attach themselves to the rocks by means of their large muscular disk-shaped foot, which acts like a sucker or an exhaust-cup.

On the California coast the abalones are gathered in large quantities for the pearls, for the shells and especially for the flesh, which is dried and used for food.

Experiments in growing pearls in the abalone or Haliotis were made in 1897 by Louis Bouton, an account of which was given at the meeting of the Paris Academie des Sciences in 1898. The tenacity of life in this mollusk makes it especially desirable for experiments of this nature. Through small holes bored into the shell, pellets of mother-of-pearl were inserted and placed within the mantle, the small holes being afterward closed up. Other nacreous pellets were introduced directly into the bronchial cavity. The objects were soon covered with thin, pearly layers, resulting in a few months in spheres of much beauty, resembling somewhat the pearls naturally produced by this mollusk. In six months, according to M. Bouton, the layers became of sufficient thickness to be attractive. Within limitations, the size of the pearl produced is in proportion to the length of time it is allowed to remain within the mollusk. The results of the experiments seem to encourage further efforts in this line, and possibly in course of time there may be a profitable business in growing pearls in abalones on the pacific coast of the United States. Indeed, the experiments in transplanting and cultivating the pearl-oyster in Australia leads one to fancy that the culture of that species in the warm coastal waters of America is by no means an impossibility.

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