| Well, I saw the pearls. Interesting developments.
They were definately still "crusty" but she said much cleaner
Around the holes when I looked closely, there is some peeling of the nacre.
I am guessing these are a set of 1950-60's cultured salt water pearls -- they are a graduated strand which I believe was really popular back then and the clasp looks like gold.
Good news. Her husband didn't think that was the right thing to do, so he took them out of the water behind her back and left them to dry on a towel.
She was pleased with them. She thought they were so much cleaner. I send her some links to this site and to some pearl vendors so she could see what really good pearls look like. I am hoping she will read this forum and become a convert.
It is sad that some jewelers don't really know anything about pearls. To the end user, pearls are jewelry and jewelers are like docotrs -- they should know every thing about all jewelry. Anything they say people believe.
Great discussion on oil. Thanks everyone.  |