I am a newbie here. Always loved pearls (even wear them with jeans) - and don't really wear any other necklaces (except one red necklace - don't know what it is).
My whole life I have worn and adored pearls (all given to me by my Mom before she died) and I KNEW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
about pearls, except what my mother said about them back in 1957 (when I was being potty trained - ha ha).
She spoke about cultured pearls with some kind of secretiveness and embarrassment; my young child impression was that cultured pearls were not real pearls; that since "the war"(WWII - where my Dad served), real pearls don't come about anymore because people have not respected nature
.
Sorry . .
I don't mean to write my life history here.
The point is that when I got my
22 INCH pearl necklace back after restringing (with BIG KNOTS), it didn't look or feel the same - -
Slide show of a few photos on webshots:
Keep in mind, I am not a photographer, and I discovered that pearls are extremely difficult for an amateur to photograph.
slide show view:
http://good-times.webshots.com/slide...63998453YaCEie BIGGEST DARK TURQUOISE-COLORED PEARLS GONE . . .
and my necklace had shrunk (shrunken ??? ) to only sightly more than
19 INCHES.
What would cause a life-long jeweller and/or his son, a budding GIA certified jeweler, swipe my pearls?
I suspect they must be extremely valuable to make the older jeweler toss his ethics. i have spent the past 2 months READING EVERYTHING ABOUT PEARLS. There is so much information about pearls. I learned that the logo on my clasp stands for Mikimoto -- read a lot about him.
I wondered why the jeweler didn't tell me my pearls were
Mikimoto, and why he asked me if I wanted him to
change the clasp. YIPES
This Pearl-Guide forum has the best, most straightforward information I have found anywhere. I LOVE HOW YOU PEOPLE SOLVE MYSTERIES ! Sort of like . . . CSI Pearl.
So, can you solve this mystery for me?
Pearl Poor