Attention sellers who are selling Handama certified Akoya pearls on your Websites!
I think you should be aware of something that has recently been posted on a popular Website. You can find the quote below:
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Unfortunately, there are numerous sellers selling Chinese Akoya Cultured Pearls as Hanadama. Doubly unfortunate is the fact that the Pearl Science Laboratory does not distinguish between Japanese Akoya and Chinese Akoya on their certificate. As such, it is possible to encounter a Hanadama certificate for Chinese Akoya that is worth considerable less than Japanese Akoya.
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This is obviously an attempt at explaining why they have they most expensive Hanadama prices on the Internet. But I have done a bit of a research online today and found that no other sellers are selling Hanadama smaller than 7.5-8mm, which means that no other online sellers are selling Chinese cultured Hanadama pearls. There is only one seller that I have found that is selling smaller Hanadama certified. The only Hanadama certified pearls online that could
possibly be Chinese would be theirs, as those of us who actually do know what is going on at the pearl farms in Asia KNOW that the Chinese are not producing quality pearls larger than 7.5mm! A few strands of 7.5-8mm do come out every harvest, but to date I have never purchased them because they are not as good as the Japanese.
I suggest other online sellers denote that your Hanadama strands are indeed cultured in Japan, although many of us do not like to use the term Japanese Akoya since it is essentially dishonest and has been repeatedly deemed inaccurate by numerous industry authorities such as the JCK, JNA, and Pearl World the journal. I suggest simply explaining the truth – larger than 7.5mm is Japanese – smaller than 7.5mm, no one can say honestly they are guaranteed to be Japanese, and they almost certainly contain some pearls cultured in China.
If Chinese Akoya pearls do receive the grade of Hanadama from the same Pearl Science Laboratory of Japan – the highest allowable grade given to Akoya pearls – wouldn’t the argument that Japanese pearls are so much better than Chinese be false? You are stating it on your own Website! That would mean that Chinese Akoya are being produced that are as fine as the top 1% of Japanese harvested today. Well that is the truth. We have all known this for a number of years.
One quick other question; If a seller grades pearls exactly the same way as Mikimoto, and claims that their AAA pearls are of equivalent quality, yet Mikimoto grades their AAA as Hanadama, how can that same seller offer Hanadama at a higher price claiming it is better than their own AAA? Just curious… we could always check out the Mikimoto Website or call one of the stores to verify that Mikimoto's AAA are indeed Hanadama, right?