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Ari White Freshwater Pearl Drop Pendant.

The So Unforgettable Ari White Pearl pendant features beautiful 14mm high lustre Freshwater Peal with 14K Gold filled accents and a vermeil focal bead set with Cubic Zirconia.

Available in yellow gold or rose gold. the gold focal bead is set with white cubic zirconias.

what is vermeil? it is a sterling silver bead, covered with 3 microns of rose or yellow gold plating over sterling silver. This is the high quality jewllery standard of plating 3 microns is the maximum amount that can be applied to a silver piece. 

Note: i generally do not use gold plated items, in my jewllery, but in a pendant drop i find the 3 microns gold plating is perfect    For a pendant around the neck.

chains are sold seperately and are made of gold filled in yellow or rose gold filled. 

The handmade Pearl pendants are exclusively handmade in Cairns Australia

Note: Chains Sold Separately.

The Pearl, a lunar symbol representing both the moon and woman, has been a symbol of wisdom, purity and perfection for millennia.

The Latin word for pearl, “unique,” aptly describes the fact that no two pearls are identical.

Freshwater Pearls are cultivated within a mussel shell called Hyriopsis Schlegeli.

A pearl forms when a nucleus, a small piece of the mussel’s tissue known as “mantle material,” is implanted.  The mollusc remains unharmed during this process and secretes the pearl with nacre (pearl lustre) over a period of 7-8 years.  One shell can produce up to 20 pearls.

A freshwater pearl is entirely composed of pearl material, primarily calcium carbonate and conchiolin.  The June birthstone is Pearl, along with Alexandrite and moonstone.

While white is the most renowned pearl colour, they naturally occur in nearly every shade imaginable.  These colours range from white to golden, chocolate, pink, lavender and blue. Black freshwater pearls are not naturally occurring, a pearl is treated with silver nitrate to transform white and pink pearls into a deep black. This stain is absorbed by the porous layers of the pearl.

What is GOLD FILLED?

Gold-filled is composed of a solid sheet of 14k gold bonded with heat and pressure to a sheet of bronze.

Why is it called Gold Filled? Is it “filled with gold”?

Actually, all the gold is on the outside, the industry decided on “gold-filled” to identify this kind of jewellery —it’s confusing, since it really has nothing to do with being filled with gold.

Most importantly the term gold filled refers to a thick outer layer of durable, pressure-bonded, real, solid gold…on the outside.  No filling.

IS GOLD-FILLED jewellery real gold?

The gold in 14k gold-filled is definitely real. There’s a thick layer of real, solid 14k gold on the outside of a bronze core.  The 14k gold that’s on the outside of gold-filled is the same gold as you would get from a solid 14k piece.  

When compared to gold plated Jewellery, Gold-Filled is a far superior product.

Gold filled is NOT “GoldPlated”.