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More Information about Abalone jewelry

Abalone jewelry encloses the beauty of the deep sea within its crust and is available in an array of styles and patterns for its lovers. Jewelry in fact, is perhaps the most appropriate item that can do justice to the exuberating beauty of Abalone.

What is Abalone? Abalone is a type of mollusk that is found in the deep waters of the warm seas. What is amazing about this item is that what appears to be a rather plain looking thick, lopsided shelled mollusk from the exterior, quickly transforms itself into a sparkling and shimmering object of beauty, when opened up. The gleaming quality of Abalone can be credited to its iridescent nacre, a secretion of the shell, which also gives it the luster and radiance that it typically passes onto the jewelry that is crafted out of it.

The mollusk is christened as Abalone in America, Paua in New Zealand, Awabi in Japan and Ormer in Channel Island. It is an aquatic gastropod of Haliotis genus and is exceptionally rarely found in the rocky coastal water bodies of South Africa, Channel Islands, California, New Zealand and Japan. White Abalone features among the Engendered Species in the US and therefore amassing Abalone at random is considered to be illegal in several areas of the nation.

Value of Abalone

 Abalone is one of the most colorful of pearl producing mollusks; it is a prized product in diamond jewelry production and it is also integrated into several other devices. Thanks to its overwhelming brilliance, Abalone shells are widely used for decorative purposes too.

Abalone gemstones share the brilliance of the varied colors of its nacre, which ranges from silvery-white to dark blue, from pink to purple, and lots of other hues depending on the species from which it hails.

9 different varieties of Abalone are housed in the warm seas of North America and the assortment flaunts a huge range of shades that are utilized commercially for the purposes of jewelry making, furniture filling, inlaying musical instruments like guitar, laminating ceramic tiles and ornamenting mirrors, jewelry boxes and bins.

Abalone is valued highly in ornament making because of it extremely strong shell quality and astounding purity and loveliness. Abalone has been shaped and polished into attractive jewelry pieces since many years and thanks to its breathtaking range of color, luster and sheen, its popularity has not gone down an inch, till today. Sterling silver jewelry pieces like earrings, bracelets, pendants and rings are often inlaid with the beauty of the abalone shell, making them striking and awesome in look and loveliness.

Expect to find fashionable contemporary designs like the heart ring, cross pendant and dangle earrings in Abalone jewelry and also Victorian age designs like elaborate sculptured natural necklaces.