NO ORDINARY STRAND
Apr 23, 2017
2 minutes
A strand of pearls is an essential element of a classically elegant wardrobe, an heirloom and a mark of sophistication. For thousands of years, they have represented wisdom, purity and perfection. They are born of the ocean, complete, alluring and iridescent with an inner glow.
But the story of the Australian South Sea oyster, but it wasn’t the pearl the luggers were originally seeking amid the huge tropical tides, but its shell.
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