The recent private South Sea Pearl auction held in Lombok last month had a nice selection of golden and white colour pearls of various grades and quality. Interestingly the 4.5kg assortment of pearls also included some eye catching large and very unique shaped Baroque Pearls.
Baroque Pearls appear to be rapidly becoming as fashionable as Natural Colour Diamonds and the increased popularity of Baroque Pearls is sending prices upwards. Similar to what happened with Natural Colour Diamonds in the 1990's where colour diamonds were previously seen to be an unwanted by-product and sold off cheaply to now collecting huge prices per carat for pink, blue and red diamonds.
No two Baroque Pearls were the same with each Pearl being extremely unique in shape and character, almost making the traditional round pearls look boring when put alongside. A number of the Baroque Pearls were much larger than traditional round pearls with several exceeding 25mm in length.
The wholesale price achieved at the auction for the 25mm Baroque Pearls was around approximately $800 per piece with the smaller 15mm Baroque Pearl is achieving around for $300 per piece. .
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