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yakkah: Historical Persian quality factor describing natural pearls of secondary quality.

yellow grains: Nineteenth century theory of natural pearl production stating that yellow grains found in some freshwater pearls were from shell-production reserve material. This organic material made its way into the mantle and catalyzed pearl growth.

yoyo: Japanese term for a host mollusk's 45-day...

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Zebra mussel: Introduced Asian mussel species that has done significant damage to freshwater mussel stocks in streams and rivers principally north of the Ohio River in the eastern United States.

Zuchtperlen: German term for cultured pearls.

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CIBJO (2006): The Pearl Book. Milan, Italy.
CIBJO (2021). Guide for Classifying Natural Pearls and Cultured Pearls.
Donkin, R. A. (1998): Beyond Price. Pearls and Pearl-Fishing: Origins to the Age of Discoveries. American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.
Fiske D., Shepherd J. (2007): Continuity and change in Chinese freshwater pearl culture. Gems & Gemology, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 138-145...

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The Romans acquired their taste for pearls from the Greeks, and for some centuries rivaled or overtook India as the world's biggest pearl depository.
There was such competition for pearls in Rome that laws were made that only the elite could wear them. Statues of the goddesses especially Venus wore only the absolute best, largest, and most perfectly matched pearl earrings, in their marble pierced ears. Mortals got to fight over the rest. Large, perfectly matched pairs of pearls were...