12mm South Indo-Pacific Black Coral Bead Necklace 18"

MATCHING EARRINGS, BRACELETS, AND ANKLETS AVAILABLE.Why So Much Information?Because I Wanted to Know and I Would Have Asked These Questions, So I Did All the Research to Provide You With Full Disclosure and Details to Gain Your Assurance of Trust, and to Ensure Your Satisfaction With the Genuine...

MATCHING EARRINGS, BRACELETS, AND ANKLETS AVAILABLE.Why So Much Information?Because I Wanted to Know and I Would Have Asked These Questions, So I Did All the Research to Provide You With Full Disclosure and Details to Gain Your Assurance of Trust, and to Ensure Your Satisfaction With the Genuine Quality of This 100% Completely Natural (Not Enhanced, Not Treated) Black Coral Necklace Design. Brand New, Never Used Coral Bead Necklace. 100% Genuine, Indo-Pacific Seas Black Coral Bead Necklace.

- Coral Support Details: Please Note, There Are Three Physically Known Characteristics of Black Corals That Need to Be Addressed For Customers to Better Understand This Design is Genuine. First,Overall Light Weight: The Weights of Black Corals Are the Lightest Weighing of All Known Coral Varieties Due to the Way it Grows in Branch Form. At Times, This Might Confuse Uninformed Consumers Who Are Not Aware of This Biologically Known Fact and Possibly Raise Questions Into Their Believing They Are Not Purchasing a Genuine Black Coral Product. Please Be Assured This Design is Created With ONLY Genuine Black Coral Pieces (Not Plastics, Not Fakes, Not Synthetic, Not Anything Else). Second, Tacky or Waxy Feel: When Highly Polished, Both Black and Gold Corals Are Naturally, Highly Porous Internally and Will Produce a Smooth, Waxy to Vitreous Glass-Like Polished Surface Luster Similar to Amber Gemstones. Unlike Gold Corals, High Quality Black Corals Will Even Display Your Reflection Clearly From Their Polished Surfaces. However, When Black or Gold Coral Beads Are Rubbed Against Each Other, They Will Feel Slightly Sticky or Tacky and Will Not Rub Away Clean or Smooth as With Pink, White, or Red Corals. This Other "Tacky" Trait Again, Might Lead Consumers to Believe They Have a "Plastic-Made" or an Other Than Coral Product Due to the Combined "Light Weight and Waxy Feel", When They in Fact Are Holding Genuine Pieces of Black Coral. Pink, White, and Red Coral Varieties Are, For the Most Part, Internally Much More Solid and Dense, and Are Substantially Heavier in Weight Comparisons. When Surface Polished, Pink, White, and Red Corals Will Produce a Smooth, Slick Surface and Will Have a Marble-Like Clinking Sound, Similar to Tapping On a Coffee Cup or Tapping Large Pearls Against Each Other. Third, Bead Shapes and Sizes: Although These Round Beads Have Been Calibrated and Polished, Each Bead is Naturally Shaped Slightly Unique to the Very Next Bead, Very Similar to Round Cultured Pearls. This is Clearly Observable Using a Jeweler's Loupe or Magnifying Glass as One Bead Might Appear Almost Perfectly Round While the One Next to it Might Have a Very Subtle Oval or Egg Shape. Aside From Shape, There Are Subtle Millimeter Width Differences in Each Bead. Hence, It Would Be Extremely Difficult to Reproduce Each of These Unique Shape and Size Combinations in a Plastic Mold or Any Mold as Many Thousands of Individual Molds Would Have to Be Created to Reproduce the Natural Shapes and Sizes Displayed Within This Coral Necklace. I am Providing You With All of These Details Not to "Sell This Item" to You, But to Inform My Customers This Coral Design is 100% Genuine and Natural and to Assure its Authenticity With a Full 100% Money-Back Refund, if They Are Not Sold as Described! With So Many Imitations Flooding the Consumer Markets Offering Fakes and Synthetics as Coral, The Above Three Major Points Are Provided For You to Determine Authenticity and to Guarantee This Coral Design Offered is Created Using Only Genuine Black Coral. These Natural Semi-Precious, Calibrated Black Coral Gemstone Beads Are Only Surface Polished to Display Their Fine Glossy Luster, Hues and Overall Gorgeous Appearance. These Black Coral Beads Display a Beautiful, Deep Midnight Black Color Saturation Throughout, Which is Completely Natural and Have Not Been Treated in Any Way. These Coral Pieces Were Fished From the Northern Indo-Pacific Waters and Were Calibrated Into a Single-Strand of Round Beads to Display Their Natural Colors. There Are No Known Breaks or Cracks on These Pieces. Similar to High-Grade Cultured Pearls, Any Surface Fault Lines (Extremely Subtle Growth Rings, Natural Surface Imperfections, or Very Scarce Tiny Surface Pours) Noted Are 100% Completely Natural Surface Inclusions Created by Calibrating the Rough Trunk and Branch Pieces Into Round-Shaped Cabochon-Cut Beads. As a Substantial Amount of Material is Sacrificed to Create These Calibrated Designs, The Investment Value Greatly Increases, Aside From the High-Grade Value of the Coral Materials Being Used to Ultimately Create This Necklace.

- Symbolism: The Color of Black Gemstones symbolize self control and resilience. Black stones have protective energies in the sense that black is the absence of light, and therefore, can be used to create invisibility. Black is one of the most misunderstood colors. A black tie dinner is formal and elegant. Women can wear that "little black dress" to the black tie dinner. Yet the bad guys wear black hats. Yet, Native Americans thought black was good because it was the color of soil, which gives life. Black is not necessarily a color; it is the absence of all color. When people speak of opposites, it is usually in terms of black and white. Black, and its opposite white, represents polarities similar to the yin-yang philosophy, both polar opposites must exist to have complete balance. Black absorbs all aspects of light. While white reveals, black conceals. It has come to mean hidden, it is linked to the unknown or the unseen. In times of uncertainty black contains the energy of the threatening unknown. In a positive state, black is seen as a restful emptiness into which anything may emerge and disappear once again. It is also mysterious, providing a sense of potential and possibility. Coral is a symbol of Life Force Energy. Its energy helps overcome lethargy and depression, dispels foolishness, nervousness, fear and panic, guards against accidents and theft. It represents the ability to allow for flow and change in ones life and quiets the emotions. Helps one to connect with the quality of the mystic within. Makes difficult communications easily understood. It also symbolizes attachment; believed to be an amulet against natural disasters, disease, bad luck, and jealous friends.
- Design:Black Coral; Single-Strand, Hand-Cut Calibrated Round Beads, Unknotted, Black Capped 18k Gold-Plated Closure,High Polish Luster, Smooth Surface Polished Coral Finish.
- Measures:Approx. Just Under 1/2" Widest Each Bead.
- Size: Rope Necklace is Approx. 18.0"-19.0" Long.
- Weight:Approx. 47.3 grams Total.
- Coral Details: Source Origin:Central to Northern Indo-Pacific (A Triangular-Shaped Are Encompassing the East China Sea South of Japan to the Western Pacific Ocean Off North Eastern Australia to the Eastern Indian Ocean Off the Western Indonesian Archipelago); Shape: Calibrated, Rounded-Shaped Cabochon-Cut Beads; Grade: Premium High Quality, Very Good; Color/s: Midnight Black; Luster: The Luster on These Coral Beads Are Outstanding With Superb Glossy Surface Qualities; Blemishes: The Beads Are Virtually Surface Flawless and Smooth With Natural Surface Imperfections Observable Using a 10X Jewelers Loupe; Matching: Beads Match Evenly in Color Distribution and Overall Appearance.
Features: This Beautiful 100% Hand-Cut and Hand-Strung, Northern Indo-Pacific Black Coral Necklace is Crafted With a Smooth, Surface Polished Finish Background. The Design Features a Single Strand of Round-Shaped Coral Beads Arranged Side by Side. The Necklace is Completed With a Black Covered (Capped) 18k Yellow Gold Plated Screw-In Barrel Closure. About Coral: Coral is the skeletal remains of a marine animal, the polyp corallicum, and is mainly composed of calcium carbonate. Since Corals are calcified skeletons of sea creatures, they grow in primarily two formations resembling either "cauliflower heads" or branches of a tree. Located at depths between 10-1600 feet, coral can be found along the shores of Japan, China, Taiwan, Australia, Hawai`i and throughout Polynesia, the Philippines, Bay of Biscay, Canary Islands, Indonesian and Malaysian Archipelagos, and the Western Mediterranean. Most coral used for jewelry comes from the Mediterranean Sea or from the Pacific Ocean near Hawai`i, Japan and Northern Taiwan. Like many other gemstones made from rock or organic material, coral comes in a variety of many beautiful colors including blue, red, yellow, black, white, gold, orange, and pink. Unlike other precious stones, coral has a smooth brilliant surface when sanded and polished to take on a smooth glossy and shiny luster. White coral is the most plentiful of all coral varieties. The most sought after and rare corals are red, black, angel-skin pink, and gold. With characteristics such as its intense and permanent coloration and glossiness, precious coral jewelry remains very popular. Color is the main value factor of coral. Oxblood-red Mediterranean corals are the most expensive, followed by a deep-red to salmon Moro coral from Japan, a blush angel-skin pink from Taiwan and Hawai`i, rare gold coral from Hawai`i, rare black coral from the Indo-Pacific and Hawai`i, and white being the most commonly available. Most experts also consider intensity and uniformity of color to be a major factor. There are several types of Hawaiian precious corals including black, pink, gold, and a variety of white coral with a pink cast. Hawaiian coral is also considered one of the world’s finest by displaying more lustrous qualities than any other types of corals found in the world. About Precious Black Coral (Antipatharia): Black corals (aka Little Thorn Coral) are a group of deep water, tree-like corals oddly related closely to sea anemones. Also unique to black coral are their tiny spines or thorns that cover the surface of the skeleton, which gives its nickname "little thorn coral." Though black coral's living tissue is brilliantly colored, it takes its common name from the distinctive black or dark brown color of its skeleton. When highly polished, black coral is dazzling and holds great reflective properties; its surface appears a deep, solid black color. In Hawaiian, black coral is called `Ekaha ku moana, which was proclaimed the official Hawaii State Gemstone in 1987. It takes many years for coral to mature and be ready to harvest and turn into fine jewelry. Black coral is considered a rare and very valuable coral and two of the highest grades today are found in waters off northern Taiwan and the Hawaiian Islands chain. Black Coral was the first of the precious corals to be found in Hawaiian waters, growing at depths of 250 to 350 feet. Black coral grows in all warm tropical oceans, ranging from just below the tide line to depths of thousands of feet. Most of the 150 known species live in tropical waters below 900 feet. The few that thrive in shallower waters, 60 feet or less, usually grow in caves and under ledges where light is dim. Black corals thrive in such darkness because they don't have symbiotic plants in their tissues, like reef corals do. Another difference between these two coral types is that black coral does not form reefs or heads. A colony of black coral looks like a tree growing up from the ocean floor. The largest of such trees in Hawaii reach about 6 feet tall, averaging 2 inches of growth per year. The trunks and branches of black coral (and some pink and gold species) are as hard as ivory and pearl. When polished, it shines with such luster you can almost see your own reflection in it. Black corals are particularly abundant in the northern Indo-Pacific seas region and in the Caribbean, where coral reefs have been the major source. Harvest beds from northern Taiwan waters have tended to be the dominant exporter, followed by harvests in the Philippine sea, and small quantities from Hawaiian waters. The Great Barrier Reef of eastern Australia is perhaps one of the better known sources world-wide however, exporting is very limited. Relatively small amounts are harvested off Hawaii, where black coral "appears to have first been found in 1958 off the island of Maui. Harvesting of Hawaiian precious coral is carefully controlled and monitored to ensure it remains a renewable resource. To ensure the future of black coral, divers strictly adhere to state regulations prohibiting the harvesting of immature colonies. Coral jewelry is the traditional gift for the 35th wedding anniversary. Coral Care Tips: Corals are delicate gems and proper care/wear should be used. Last On, First Off. Similar to pearls, put coral jewelry on after applying makeup/hairspray and remove your jewelry before removing makeup, showering, or retiring for the evening. To clean Coral jewelry, wipe it gently with a moist soft cloth using warm water, dry off with a dry soft cloth. Also, coral should be stored carefully and separately from your other jewelry items to avoid scratches. Coral is also porous, similar to pearls, so care should be taken to see that coral jewelry does not come in contact with any chemicals. Because coral is produced by a living organism it cannot be put into jewelry cleaning solutions; never place coral jewelry in an ultrasonic cleaner. Jewelry Care: It is Not Recommended to Use Harsh Cleaners, Detergents, Soaps, Shampoos, Jewelry Cloths or Jewelry Liquids, Chemicals, Chlorine, Body or Tanning Lotions, Ultrasonic Cleaners, Tarnish Creams, Showering, Swimming in Pools or Hot Tubs or the Ocean With Any Coral Jewelry. Purchase Assurance of Quality: As Each of These Rope Necklaces Are Hand-Made Using Natural, Calibrated Black Coral Beads, Each is Slightly Unique to the Next. Upon Close and Magnified Viewing, There Are Very Subtle Differences in the Shapes and Natural Surface Inclusions of the Round Beads, Which Are Approximately Represented in the Item's Picture. The Item's Picture/s Display All the Main Appearance Characteristics Provided With Each Rope Necklace Purchased. Makes a Great Gift or Treat Yourself to Start or Add to Your Collection of Fine Coral Jewelry. Item's Picture/s Enlarged to Show the Fine Details. Certain High-Value Items Will Have Required Shipping Insurance to Protect Your Order’s Cost Value Against Shipping That is Lost, Stolen or Damaged by Others and Will Already Be Included in the FLAT Rate Shipping Cost. Please Understand We Should Not Be Held Responsible For Delivery Time Once Your Order Has Shipped as We Are Not the Individuals Delivering Your Package. 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The Above Picture is a Crushed, 4mm Black Coral Round Bead to Display its Genuine, Natural and Untreated Appearance. The Outer Smooth Surface is Highly Polished to a Lustrous Shine. Upon Closer Examination, Luminescent Sparkles and Coral Pours Are Visible Within the Bead. The White Ring Seen on the Edges Are Camera Flash Reflections Off the White Paper Background the Bead Was Resting On.