The Abernethy Pearl is the largest Scottish freshwater pearl and will go up for sale almost 60 years after it was discovered.

It will be sold online and in Edinburgh by auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull later this month on August 21, the Herald reports. 

The pearl was discovered 1967 and named after its finder, William (Bill) Abernethy. He was famously known as Scotland’s last pearl fisherman with it then being banned in Scotland completely in 1998.