Abstract
Sandwiched between the California gold rush of 1848 and the South African diamond rush of 1868 is a far less remembered but no less frenzied hunt for one of nature’s treasures: the New Jersey pearl rush of 1857.
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Federman, D. (1990). American Freshwater Pearl. In: Modern Jeweler’s Consumer Guide to Colored Gemstones. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6488-7_33
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