Old Photograph Pearl Fisher Scotland

Old photograph of a Pearl Fisher in Perthshire, Scotland. There has been pearl fishing in Scotland for centuries. First mentions of British pearls come from the time of Julius Caesar. Tacitus noted that the pearls from Britain were dusky or brownish. In 1355 Scottish pearls were being exported to Paris, France, as there is a statue from that time of the Parisian Goldsmiths saying that gold and silver smiths were not to set Scottish pearls alongside Oriental ones. The only exception being for large projects such as for churches, where it probably was not possible to acquire sufficient Oriental pearls without an item becoming too expensive.



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