MEDITERRANEAN'S  RED CORAL  (corallium rubrum) COLOR:fro rose to intense red pale

 WHERE the ALIVE ones:in to the Mediterranean sea, Atlantic coasts of Morocco, Portuguese ,Islands Green Head, Islands Canarian, Atlantic coasts,the deep from  5 mt.(Isola Medas, Costa Brava - Girona -Spain) to the 500 and more mts(Canale of Sicily, discovery of the 2007 CNR) LARGENESS: from  2/3 cm to the 50/60cm(Canale of Sicily, discovery of the 2007 CNR - impossible to fish it) with one circumference from  milimeter to 20cm and more (discoveryof 2007)

SCIACCA'S RED CORAL  (corallium rubrum) COLOR:from rose pale to the dark orange

From 1875 to the end of the century was finds to you, outside Sciacca, three giacimenti of coral which, until the end of the century, supplied tons and tons of coral. Subfossile, datable coral draft to some million fà years. It is not succeeded to comprise, if not through a chemical process, as it is possible that an organic material which is the coral, subject therefore to decompose it, has arrived until we after many years. Still today there are small quantity to the wide one of Sciacca to one deep of 90/120mt given the high costs of the immersions such deep, it's convenience to fish it not there.

JAPANESE CORALS are bigger of the Mediterranean coral the coppers go from i little cm to the meter and more of height with circumferences that arrive to the 15/20cm

BOKE' or ANGEL'S SKIN  (corallium elatius) COLOR: intense, compact rose WHERE ALIVE: in the seas of Japan, Filippine and Taiwan to depth you draw 200/400mt is not other that one of the colors of the wide chromatic scale of corals of Japan. It has the same paste, the same consistency of the Satsuma coral.  it is covered from a limestone spirit white man. Naturally, in the worked coral, less this spirit is looked at and more the piece is worth. When the rose is compact, without spots, we are of the rare, by the piece most expensive forehead

 

SATSUMA o (corallium elatius) COLOR: from the rose intense red pale to WHERE the ALIVE ones: in the seas of Japan, Filippine and Taiwan to a depth you draw 200/400mt the color of the Japanese corals is not compact, for which it is not rare to find coppers whose color leaves from the red one of base in order to arrive to the white man. Other peculiarity, present in all Japanese corals, is the fact that all the branch, from the smallest base until  peripheral, is covered from a vein white woman (than we call "spirit"). This that could seem a defect, in truth is a good thing in how much helps to recognize the authenticity and the origin of a coral. E' extraordinarily adapted, for color and morphology, to being recorded. All the statues, the flowers etc are for more realize to you in this coral. The much beautiful also cabochons, buttons, almonds, drops, which, dates the great measures much of coppers, can catch up remarkable dimensions. Them it will be able to be recognized from the fact that in the posterior part often introduces the characteristic  white spirit  woman.

AKA or RED BLOOD(corallium laponicum)

COLOR: from intense the red white man to WHERE the ALIVE ones: in the seas of Japan, Vietnam and Taiwan to a depth you draw 200/500mt Extremely like glass, much defective one. it's the red coral more expansive that there is, when it is succeeded to make a piece without imperfections this is of one only beauty. Draft of the coral more existing beloved, the top quality can quote  500/600 euro to the gram

Deep Sea

COLOR:dal white man to the rose pale to the red one clearly. Particularly like a glass, a lot shining WHERE ALIVE: in the seas of the Hawaii to depth much large 1000/2000mt