JAPANESE PEARLS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 7 May 1921, Page 5

JAPANESE PEARLS

VIEWS OP EXEERTS.

GREAT DISCOVERY

iET -DAwm-^ESESS ASSOraaTION—COPYBKIHT ! • ' .' ' / LOSTBL^, May .6, ! .Many Healers hold ifihe view that tli©. •Japanese.forced peaiis are real and not -ifakea. In all respects -they ;are th© • same as pearls '<JbtaixieS in, the cordinary \ -way, '-with: the exception <rfftthe artificial: 'Shell :insiiie; "Hatton Garden experts admit that .it h& revel«ttion is a, .most impontant' 'event in its''history amd it :may revo-i "lutionise the pearl-shelling mdnstry 6 ; "because it is " impossible :to "distinguish -the oldrfashi©neH/from the -newif ashion«d pearls -by existing Jfces'ts. rThe ques-; .tion is asked.-: If these samples were obtained in a few months, what will happen :if cultivation ilatits tor years? The reply is, the biggest and -most heautiful pearls in tlie Twoflfl. [A few days ago the London Star revealed-that London jewellers and gem •dealers have been defratrQefl of thou- . sands of pounds by meaiHS 'of Japanese'faked pearls^ -which at is impossible/to -differentiate from natural Oriental pearls without breaking. The 'fake is •produced by a similar mefcTioa ■that ■used for the "Japanese cuttured pearl, -except a mother-of-pearl Ibead, is placed ih. -an incision in! the (oyster's •Sesh instead df'merely in the shell, Tfimains 'thepe for several TKeefcs until at is entirely covered by a (thin ;;pearl -film, instead of only on one side, 10s in ,-ifbe case of the cultured pearl!