Major Shift Underway in Pearl Market?
By Fleury Sommers

When the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre revealed the formation of the Dubai Pearl Exchange, the news created hardly a surge in the trade press. After that, the Pearl Exchange announced year-end revenues of over 300 percent. In February, the Exchange hosted the very first World Pearl Forum in Dubai, a forum that drew in the majority of the major players in the pearl industry. It hosted a tender of a few of the most vital natural pearls in the world.

It announced a cooperative endeavor with the Gemmological Association of Great Britain to establish the very first comprehensive study program on natural pearls. It gathered the support of some of the most essential people in the pearl industry. Individuals like Nicholas Paspaley, executive chairman, Paspaley; Robert Wan, chairman, Robert Wan Tahiti; and Noriyuki Morita, president, K Mikimoto & Co Ltd. So something is going on. Something crucial.

Before the discovery of oil and gas and before Mikimoto reinvented the pearl industry by developeding the process for nucleating pearls, Bahrain was a key trading facility for the natural pearls fished from the Persian Gulf.

The creation of the Exchange is, partially, an initiative to recover that heritage.

Yet it is extra. The Pearl Exchange, according to its mission statement, is planned to "advertise the passions and development of the Pearl Industry in the center East and surrounding regions." The Pearl Industry consists of the "natural and cultured pearl industry."

The Arab love for keshi pearls or all-natural pearls is well known within the gem trade. Keshi pearls are spontaneous nacreous developments that occur in the mollusk when the animal denies the bead or mantle cells planned to promote the development of a pearl. Islamic countries normally take in most keshi output and efforts to promote the pearl in other components of the world are negligible.

Nonetheless, discerning enthusiasts have always liked keshis for their luster and orient. As David Federman, the well related to author for Modern Jewelry says, "Keshi pearls are inevitably baroque in type. That the large majority are fancy-shaped is probably the best single consider their lower price-or at the very least low in contrast with comparable quality round pearls. What the market frequently misses out on regarding top-of-the-crop South Sea keshi pearls is their rarity and majesty. These are pearls with gloss so intense it is virtually blinding." Although right here Federman is going over South Seas pearls, the very same can be stated of top quality freshwater pearls.

With the establishment of the Dubai Pearl Exchange and its focus on keshis, I believe we are going to see this fantastic gems come to be significantly eye-catching to enthusiasts and customers. [http://www.TopDrawerChoice.com] makes hand-made gems jewelry, including keshi pearl precious jewelry. Fleury Sommers, owner of the fine art and craft gallery has been a pearl supplier and gallery owner for over twenty years.