Conch perls (Bhubaneswar)

Conch perls

When the animal is removed from the conch shell there is a yellow orange skirt that helps create the suction that keeps it in its shell. If there is a pearl it will be in this skirt. It so happens that the skirt is also the slimiest part of the creature and many people just cut it off and throw it away. It does not do to speculate on how many pearls have been lost this way. It has been estimated that only one in every ten thousand to fifteen thousand conch s have a pearl and of those only some twenty percent are suitable for jewelry. Many Bahamians we know have never found one in their lives yet others find them on a regular basis. The colour of the pearl varies but it is usually one of the colours of the shell. Some conch pearls have been known to fade over time yet we have had one for thirty years that looks just the same as when it came out of the animal. It has been suggested that sunlight is to blame for fading. This is one of the best sea shell pearl.