parfaitelumiere
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Hello,
I have question about several brands I see from time to time on ebay.
It seems they were making simulated pearls, but sometimes I see some cultured pearls sold as coming from these brands.
I am trying to find historical documents, to understand it better, but maybe someone has informatiosn here.
My idea is this:
-maybe some of these companies (ciro, maybe lotus?!) were selling cultured pearls in the beginning, then made glass pearls
or
-maybe sellers are just thinking the cultured pearl necklace to be made by ciro or lotus, because boxed in a ciro or lotus box, but none of the companies made cultured pearls?!
It's not easy, as example I saw old tecla advertisments, speaking about simulated pearls, but it was the very early time of the cultured pearls, and they were making quite of scientific taste promotional ads.
"saphir and rubis tecla, created by professor tecla" they probably did same for pearls (1912 period)
In 1937, the words are very different, mentionning cultured pearls from orient, with a clear asian-japanese taste on communication.
I also found a add from different company, clearly striking the tecla brand "our pearls are not a fake scientific made by a fake professor but cultured pearls coming from asia", about 1917 or so, maybe explaining why tecla changed the way to talk about their products.
This is why I am thinking maybe ciro etc made cultured pearls in the first time, and when cultured became popular after WWII, they downgraded to simulated pearls, not sure about it.
If someone has better informations, I would be interested.
I have question about several brands I see from time to time on ebay.
It seems they were making simulated pearls, but sometimes I see some cultured pearls sold as coming from these brands.
I am trying to find historical documents, to understand it better, but maybe someone has informatiosn here.
My idea is this:
-maybe some of these companies (ciro, maybe lotus?!) were selling cultured pearls in the beginning, then made glass pearls
or
-maybe sellers are just thinking the cultured pearl necklace to be made by ciro or lotus, because boxed in a ciro or lotus box, but none of the companies made cultured pearls?!
It's not easy, as example I saw old tecla advertisments, speaking about simulated pearls, but it was the very early time of the cultured pearls, and they were making quite of scientific taste promotional ads.
"saphir and rubis tecla, created by professor tecla" they probably did same for pearls (1912 period)
In 1937, the words are very different, mentionning cultured pearls from orient, with a clear asian-japanese taste on communication.
I also found a add from different company, clearly striking the tecla brand "our pearls are not a fake scientific made by a fake professor but cultured pearls coming from asia", about 1917 or so, maybe explaining why tecla changed the way to talk about their products.
This is why I am thinking maybe ciro etc made cultured pearls in the first time, and when cultured became popular after WWII, they downgraded to simulated pearls, not sure about it.
If someone has better informations, I would be interested.
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