[Bodecia]

Hi All,

Great lot of opinions or what we call on ebay feedback :0 What I do gather from all the feedback is that none of us is that very few on the PF know more than I do. We all agree to disagree. We all have our own opinions and experts disagree as much as the rest of us do. Maybe it is the photos. That is why I on my own ebay site try to give the best photos I can. But even then it is all up to the eye of the beholder and what they want to interpret. Myself, I have this need to interpret possible lurking naturals. When I receive a bunch of old crap, often not even cultured I do realise it way me that was at fault at least some of the time. Sometimes sellers try to indicate that they are naturals but can't say that because they haven't been tested. Now I am wise to them. But thanks to Caitlin I am really getting my eye in. And when I see a natural now I am almost positive, sometimes I actually know. There are at lot of natural pearls out there in eBay land but of course there are a lot that are not too.

You opened my eyes Caitlin and I do thank you. Sincerely.

Dawn - Jerin what about a private email. thought we were mates already ))
you silly, funny Chinese/Swedish lady.

[Caitlin]

Thank you Dawn, for the special mention. I would be amazed at how much you have learned about eyeing photos of pearls, but many do learn that from this forum- as I did. Jerin and pattye, both on this forum for years, have excellent eyes too. Well I could make quite a list of pearl experts on this forum, many of whom bring their extensive knowledge with them but I would hate to leave anyone out.

I don't think there is a better place to learn just about anything concerning pearls. Maybe we should add "university" somewhere in the title, like "Pearl-Guide Unversity" Now that has a ring to it. <wink, wink>

[jerin]

Originally Posted by Bodecia

Hi All,

Great lot of opinions or what we call on ebay feedback :0 What I do gather from all the feedback is that none of us is that very few on the PF know more than I do. We all agree to disagree. We all have our own opinions and experts disagree as much as the rest of us do. Maybe it is the photos. That is why I on my own ebay site try to give the best photos I can. But even then it is all up to the eye of the beholder and what they want to interpret. Myself, I have this need to interpret possible lurking naturals. When I receive a bunch of old crap, often not even cultured I do realise it way me that was at fault at least some of the time. Sometimes sellers try to indicate that they are naturals but can't say that because they haven't been tested. Now I am wise to them. But thanks to Caitlin I am really getting my eye in. And when I see a natural now I am almost positive, sometimes I actually know. There are at lot of natural pearls out there in eBay land but of course there are a lot that are not too.

You opened my eyes Caitlin and I do thank you. Sincerely.

Dawn - Jerin what about a private email. thought we were mates already ))
you silly, funny Chinese/Swedish lady.

Dawn,

I am no more expert than the real ones on this forum but my first thoughts were that this strand consists of white South Sea pearls. For the rest: I am still waiting for an answer from You

[The Pearl Outlet]

Well, here's an interesting idea I just have to throw in there... The strand may be a combination of Fireball FW and South Sea. I've seen several done that way (and sold as thus) here at the JCK show in Las Vegas.

Most of the pearls on the strand look like SS, but one or two look like fireballs.

[Nerida]

I'm not going to wade in here with a definitive "I think these pearls are x, y or z", but I am going to say that we need to acknowledge that fireball is simply a name currently given to a tailed bead nucleated freshwater pearl. Over time, the Chinese are going to get MUCH better at growing these pearls, and they won't be fireballs any longer. In other words, we are going to see many FW bead nucleated pearls that don't have tails.

To my eye, there are some pearls in Dawn's strand that look a lot like some bead nukes that I have in my stock. Here are a couple of photos of my strands... first is up to 16.6mm in size, second and third up to 18.4. In the smaller strand, there is still more of a "tail" on the pearls, albeit diminishing from many of the fireballs we are starting to get used to seeing. In the larger strand, there are several pearls with no discernable tail at all - have a look at the third pearl from the clasp on the right side of the photo.

Here is the smaller strand:


Here is the larger strand:




It is going to get harder and harder to distinguish between SS and FW bead nucleated pearls!

[pearlescence]

Still trying to work out what my light-weight-for-their-mass peach baroques are ..are these bead nucleated light or heavy for mass?

[pattye]

Hi Wendy,

Do we have a photo and size measurements for these lightweight pearls of yours?

Pattye
so many pearls, so little time

[pearlescence]

yes, in another thread

[Nerida]

Wendy, I just pm'd you to say that I can no longer see the photo in that thread..