Freshwater pearls may be the largest misunderstood type of pearl jewelry on the market today. The reason being is that many people have the misconception that freshwater pearls are tiny little rice pearls of very little value. While this may be true 20 years ago, in today’s market this is very far from the truth. In today’s market there are beautiful strands of 10-12mm near round strand of freshwater pearls coming out of China’s pearl farms that look absolutely stunning. We are talking about very near round strands with almost no blemishing what so ever and very high luster with intense lavender luster.
These type of pearls were impossible to predict 20 years ago out of China. Now 10 to 12mm sounds huge but it would probably surprise people that even larger sizes of 14mm to 18mm freshwater pearls are available on the market today. While they are still in very limited supply, these freshwater pearl necklace are on the market and get snatched up by true pearl connoisseurs worldwide.