The South Sea Pearl Blog / pearl value

Yellowing means aged, dried nacre — not rarity — so yellowed pearls usually keep modest market value. How to tell aged white pearls from naturally golden ones, what they’re honestly worth, and how to care for them.

Pearls are worth anything from $20 to over $100,000. A pearl farmer explains the price ladder by type — freshwater, Akoya, Tahitian, South Sea — and the six factors that set the figure.