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Originally Posted by purepearls These certainly do not appear to be "natural" pearls (comments to Valerie's post). |
Sure that... just couldn't refrain from posting that link
At least there is a common denominator of 'natural color' - a rare nacre color for nucleated and non-nucleated, natural or cultured. Would imagine that the rarity factor gets compounded with that of the type of pearl.
Maybe Cook is not the only source, but barely heard of and never seen a strand quite like that. For as much as I know, the pair is quite a find and can't imagine who would think twice about missing on 'roundness' with a pair of well matched, tall buttons like these. They make a sophisticated choice anyway.
It sounds like a cheap thing to do, but would dare ask a couple of other potential sources for buy / sell quotes to get an idea. It's been a couple of years since I've seen the last one and things must have changed...