| Yes it is possible.
The shape and color certainly look like freshwater, except that there weren't any cultured freshwaters back then, in 1949. If from 1949, they would have be natural freshwaters, probably quite old --and then they wouldn't/couldn't be Mikimotos.
The estimate you got would be in keeping with retail for a freshwater baroque, but it would have to be a fairly recent replacement, not from 1949
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