Black pearl
About 1845, the black pearl that comes on the market Tuamotu Archipelago and South Sea islands, and raised the industry on the coast of Mexico. Pearls of the region is famous for the variety of colors, and especially for very dark tones pearl, black pearl or greenish black pearl to be very important.
But the black pearl in the fashion and, therefore, of course, demand, always in black and yellow, with the result, black is a small value on the market until ten years later, when it became popular in Europe Largely thanks to his popularity with the French Queen Eugenie, then at the height of his power.
The queen, the story of the black pearl owe much of their high rank in the fashion world in the nineteenth century, and in their heads like a king, royal jewels used, as is clear from Winterhalter painting, showing magnificent necklace.