The Story of Pearls

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Japan Publications, 1970 - Cultured pearls - 132 pages

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22
Section 2
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Section 3
105
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The Story of Pearls
Shōhei Shirai
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abalone Akoya oyster Akoya pearl oyster annelids aragonite baroque pearls baskets beaching beauty black pearls black-lipped pearl oysters black-winged pearl oyster blister pearls blue pearls BRARY SAN DIEGO brooches calcium Ceylon choker color cream creatures culture stations cultured pearl dealer degrees Centigrade degrees Fahrenheit DIEGO ARY earrings eight millimeters epithelium ERSITY Fahrenheit famous FORNIA gems gleaming gold pearls Gulf of California half drilled half pearls inch inserted Japan Japanese Akoya Japanese pearl jewel Kokichi Mikimoto large pearl LIBRA luster lustrous Mie Prefecture millimeters millimeters in diameter mollusk nacre layer Nanyo natural pearls nucleus ornaments ORNIA pearl culture pearl culturist pearl industry pearl jewelry pearl layer pearl oyster Pinctada pearls produced pendants percent perfectly round plankton Prefecture rafts REC'D rings round pearls SAN DIEGO RSITY SAN DIEGO UNIVE SAN DIEGO UNIVERSITY shape silver silver-lipped pearl oyster strand surface thick UNIV SAN DIEGO waters

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TitleThe Story of Pearls
AuthorShōhei Shirai
PublisherJapan Publications, 1970
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedApr 3, 2009
Length132 pages
  
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