Hi Mike,

I am so happy to hear you saying it. Thank "whatever you believe in" for solid nacre and while akoyas in the present marketed form are imitations of imitations and easily replaced by such, freshadamas are real cultured pearls and can only be matched by the finest naturals but never by bead-nucleated cultured "pearls" or imitations. Even the dyed-dark freshwater pearl has a deeper and more alive luster than the Tahitian.

Zeide