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 ...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- Florida's next cash crop might be pea-sized pink pearls grown in the brown bodies of queen conchs. Two scientists at Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic ...

BOCA RATON, FL (November 4, 2009) – For more than 25 years, all attempts at culturing pearls from the queen conch (Strombus gigas) have been unsuccessful—until now. For the first time, novel and ...

A necklace of cultured pearls given to Marilyn Monroe by Joe DiMaggio in 1954. A group of magnificent tiaras worn by European nobility, including the Rosebery Tiara, a Victorian headpiece set with 13 ...

Editor’s note: This tour of small businesses across the country highlights the imagination, diversity, and resilience of American enterprise. If there were a Henry Ford of the American pearl world, it ...