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Old 07-25-2007, 08:42 PM
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The photos are good, but in order to appreciate color (and that is the subject of your message) we need you to please take some more photos using indirect unfiltered natural sunlight.

Your pearls look very Akoya...cream, with a bit of pink. And I could detect that the pearls are not perfectly uniform, so it could be a strand purchased by a stationed US soldier.

I would find someone that would be able to discern nacre thickness by means of the drill-hole. If the pearl has a thickness of nacre around 0.5 mm it could very well be an old Akoya strand.
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