Small irregular shaped pearls, created by the oyster's premature rejection of the grafted nucleus, have been given the Japanese name of keshi. The name was adopted by Japanese pearl farmers to describe tiny non-nucleated pearls, grown by accident, that were often found inside oysters at harvest time.
Keshi are found in all mollusks, including South Seas pearls from Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines. South Seas pearl keshi are generally range in colour from white, silver and champagne to deep gold. Tiare Black Pearl has hundreds of keshi pearls. They are sold by weight. Keshi pearls below one gram in weight are sold at AUD$150 per gram and over one gram at AUD$250 per gram.
