The Melaleuca conch belongs to the family of Velvet Snail family, which is a coconut conch with yellow or yellow-black spots, or papaya conch, a single-shelled software animal from Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian and Indo-Pacific waters. It is extremely difficult to produce the rare and precious Melaleuca, and the chances of finding it from a conch are one in several thousand, and the chances of being able to mine it intact to a larger size and of good quality are even lower.
In the collector's market, the Merlot Pearl is very rare. It is most prized for its orange hue, similar to that of a ripe papaya, and has a cloud-like, flame-like flame pattern structure inside and a crystalline, porcelain-like luster on the outside. Currently, there are only about 200 Melody beads in the world, mainly from the royal treasures of the Nguyen Dynasty, the last dynasty of Vietnam. Because the Vietnamese royal family is y influenced by the traditional Chinese dragon culture, the Melody beads as "dragon beads", only the emperor's collection, coupled with the sacred symbolism, and therefore well-preserved. After the collapse of the royal family, these treasures with the last emperor in exile in France, was one by one he sold one by one, and ultimately scattered in Europe, most of the Melody beads by the European jewelry industry collection.
As a rare royal jewelry merlot pearl, over the years has been the east and west collectors attention and explore the collection of treasures, the value of a lot of money. 2003 June, in Hong Kong Bao Han auction, a 100.4 carat merlot pearl to 2.7 million U.S. dollars, an average price of 26,892 U.S. dollars per carat, set a single pearl sold at a single price of the world record. 2007 fall auction Christie's Hong Kong auction, a 91.29-carat merlot pearl, the hammer price of 125,000 U.S. dollars.