Margarita pearls
When Spanish conquistadors arrived in the Western Hemisphere, they discovered that around the islands of Cubagua and Margarita, some 200 km north of the Venezuelan coast, was an extensive pearl bed (a bed of pearl oysters). One discovered and named pearl, La Peregrina pearl,Freshwater pearl was offered to the Spanish queen.
According to Garcilasso de la Vega, who says that he saw La Peregrina at Seville in 1507, (Garcilasso, “Historie des Incas, Rois du Perou,” Amsterdam, 1704, Vol. II, P. 352.) this was found at Panama in 1560 by a slave worker who was rewarded with his liberty, and his owner with the office of alcalde of Panama.
Margarita pearls are extremely difficult to find today and are known for their unique yellowish color. The most famous Margarita necklace that any one can see today is the one that then Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt gave to Jacqueline Kennedy when she and her husband, President John F. Kennedy paid an official visit to Venezuela.
Before the beginning of the 20th century, pearl hunting was the most common way of harvesting pearls. Divers manually pulled oysters from ocean floors and river bottoms and checked them individually for pearls. Not all mussels and oysters produce pearls. In a haul of three tons, only three or four oysters will produce perfect pearls.
Second: Skin feeling. The tapioca is thinner is better, is certainly also more expensive. The inferior tapioca, the pellet is very thick, even some thick like sand grains. You might as well take a spot, massages gently in the hand back, if feels roughly, then did not need to consider. Because this kind of tapioca internal medicine is unable to absorb, the external use injury skin (is mainly a cuticle, this is the very serious matter, certainly must be prudent! ), will only let you pull out the wasted money.Law Around eye’s flesh third: Feeling in the mouth.
Takes the few tapioca, tastes by the tip of tongue. The pure tapioca does not have the unusual smell mellowly, the flavor thick plain, and in the pleasant after-impression has the pearl unique light fishy smell (or fragrance), if has the acid, astringent, Xin or other unusual smells, or the flavor, you did not need to choose. If takes has the burnt smell or sticks the taste, and the powder body color turns yellow, possibly is the pearl drill hole remnant powder, the Ukrainian steel needle high speed rotation gives off heat the cause powder body to turn yellow. This tapioca takes for a long time possibly causes the heavy metal to store up the poison. fourth: Outward appearance.
The artificial or imitation pearl powder outward appearance possible clearly to show off in the real tapioca. Moistens with the finger takes the few powder, launches under the sunlight or the light the careful observation, possibly discovered that has the obvious flash,Hotel interior design contemporary style this is the mica powder.
If tapioca Huang Huopian the Ukraine, the quality of material is also not obviously pure. fifth: Detail. The high quality tapioca’s Manufacturer, will be careful to product each detail, for instance on the packing, the Chinese and English writing, the punctuation will not even present the mistake; The print quality, the seal quality requirement is strict, the color will not darken, the chromatography not accurate, the seal not to be positive
