A great irony of pearl history is that the least expensive cultured pearl product in the market today rivals the quality of the most expensive natural pearls ever found. The price-value anomaly is ...

PARIS — Did you know that in 1900 there were 300 natural pearl dealers here between numbers 1 and 100 Rue Lafayette? It was a passing mention of this in a scientific book that caught the attention of ...

When is a single pearl worth millions? First, it has to be natural. Natural pearls are the exceedingly rare and basically extinct species that yield prices in the millions at auction. In 2011 a ...