(January 1, 2009) I am researching information for a script project about natural deep sea pearls. I am most interested in any information about
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The 187.50-carat, horn-shaped (baroque), natural, abalone pearl derives its name
from its one time owner, the internationally renowned jewelry designer and
dealer, Christopher Walling, whose creations had adorned celebrities and
notables in society such as Elizabeth Taylor
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The 470-carat natural abalone pearl discovered by wesley rankin in 1990 off the coast of California,
entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest ever natural abalone pearl discovered in the world
and was valued at 4.7 million dollars in 1991
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The carved emerald representing the profile of a woman’s head, carved out of
a natural emerald crystal discovered in the Muzo mines of Colombia, was
donated to the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian
Institution
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The Queen Pearl also known as the "Paterson Pearl" has gone down in history as
the first fresh water pearl discovered in the United States since the time of
the ancient Indians. The pearl discovered in Notch Brook, near Paterson, New
Jersey, in 1857,
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The tumbled emerald necklace hanging from the raised hands of the statute of a
laughing Buddha in the standing posture, is a popular exhibit among the gem and
mineral collection of the National Museum of Natural History of the
Smithsonian Institution
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Extensive resource on Wittelsbach Diamond and other famous gemstones pearls and diamonds
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The pearl that was discovered from the oyster Pinctada maxima in the South Sea off the coast of
southern China, became the property of Empress Dowager Tz’u-Hsi, a lover of pearls, who wore it as a good luck amulet
on a slender chain
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The necklace was purchased by the British naturalist Frederick Du Cann in 1890 at Bavaria
and given to his daughters in 1965 who subsequently gifted it to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
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The pearl that was discovered in the late 16th or early 17th Centuries in the persian Gulf,entered the court of the
Moghul emperors during the period of Shah Jahan
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