Jamaica Pearl Fashion Diamond Gold Wedding Jewelry 52

Jamaica Pearl Fashion Diamond Gold Wedding Jewelry.

 By Aamir mannan.

“Perfected by nature and requiring no art to enhance their beauty, pearls were naturally the earliest gems known to man” (Kunz, The Book of Pearls, 1908).

The most common belief for many centuries regarding the origins of natural pearls was that at certain times of the year, oysters rose to the surface of the water in the morning and opened their shells to take in dew drops which became pearls.

In the 15th to 17th century the popular belief was that pearls were the eggs of oysters.

In the 18th century the discovery was made that pearls were the result of the intrusion of a hard substance or a parasite into the oyster.

Pearls are known as the world's oldest gem, as they have been been prized and collected for more than 4,000 years.

Many thousands of year ago, long before written history, early man probably discovered the first pearl while searching the seashore for food.