# Securing pearls: dry, they go blind, damp, they go soft

> Secure pearls: do not forget them in dry steel, not by the window, keep the string and the report separate.
> Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/perlen-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion

Pearls are jewelry and, at the same time, a material that dries out. A steel box forgotten airtight for years is a bad place for a pearl, and so is an open tray by the heater. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) they sit on the border between the certified safe and climate.

## What breaks without a thief

Pearls like skin when you wear them, and they do not like heating air, perfume straight on the string, or a bath in the tin. The string itself breaks at some point. You have it restrung before a pearl is on the floor and goes into the vacuum cleaner. Color and luster are in the report. Without that sheet, every later clouding becomes an assertion.

## When someone comes

The same drawer as the rest of the jewelry. In the Radar the pearl falls under jewelry, 385 cases with a loot list up to August 2026. A strand is easy to grab and easy to tear. You store it so that it does not hang on an edge.

## The room

Against theft, an anchored cabinet. For the material, not dried out for good. You take the strands out to air them, on a rhythm you have written in the calendar, and you put them back afterward. Not on the dresser "until tomorrow".

## The folder

Photo of the clasp, length, count, report. Invoice separate from the jewelry. The policy knows the strand as a line, not as "various pearls".

## Häufige Fragen

### May pearls stay in the certified safe?

Against theft, yes. Against drying out, you take them into the air on a fixed rhythm and put them back.

### Does a pearl count on its own in the Radar?

No. The reports say jewelry. Your list says which strand it was.

### What about cultured pearls versus natural pearls?

The securing is the same. The price and the report differ, and that is what belongs in the folder.