Marshall Islands Girl Fashion Pearl Diamond Gold Wedding Jewelry 84

Marshall Islands Girl Fashion Pearl Diamond Gold Wedding Jewelry.

 By Aamir Mannan.

By the time photographs of royals and their friends became a popular way to display wealth, the entire European population of lords and ladies was awash with pearls, not just the queen and her direct kin. Maybe it was just for the sake of the photograph to wear all one's pearls at once, but it showed that these pearls are so numerous that some of them must have been acquired over centuries, been well cared for, and passed down from generation to generation, though many may have been recent purchases.

The end of the 19th century was also the end of the ancient pearl trade. There would be few if any more natural pearls as the world had always known them.