| Hi Sam,
Your pearls have probably been sunbleached from an original peach color. Since they have orient, they were most likely not bleached chemically or at least not much. What you describe sounds very much like pearls whose outer nacre layers are clear and inner layers peach.
Please also note that solid nacre pearls always look tan in transmitted light. So, if your pearls are a natural pinkish white (indicating that the host shell was an albino) you will see some yellow shift in transmitted light resulting in a peach impression. Since albinos are quite rare it is more likely that the pearls were put out into direct sunlight for bleaching which will result in a very similar effect.
Zeide
Last edited by Zeide Erskine; 07-25-2006 at 09:45 PM.
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