[imanit]

Thank you, Valeria.
This was what I was hoping for. I'm not sure that what you point to on your picture are the blemishes. Here are some close-ups that I did yesterday. I did not have good light, but pictures are more detailed than those posted yestrday... I tried to expose all the blemishes I could find....

[Caitlin]

Pearl Society--they were the suspended planters one??? Tht one was to beat all eBay claims!!!

I noticed the Japanese CFWP too- and they are the one with the $28,000 tridacna pearl. They have had that up for a couple of years. It is clear they do not wish to sell it.

Still those Tahitians have great color and are nice and lustrous,so it was a good buy- from a company that we wouldn't want to universally endorse- not because of their pearls, but for their misinformation.

[Valeria101]

Originally Posted by knotty panda

Oh, I just love pearl math. And I love your diagrams, Ana!

Well... I tried to show what was in those pictures that made me reach that conclusion. Good thing that... 'cause the close ups don't look half as bad!

Originally Posted by imanit

I'm not sure that what you point to on your picture are the blemishes. Here are some close-ups that I did yesterday. I did not have good light, but pictures are more detailed than those posted yestrday... I tried to expose all the blemishes I could find....

That's some difference; from some dent in just about every pearl showing in the first picture to a few among many pearls in the close ups... Huge difference. Forget that previous post.

Your pictures look 100 times better then the seller's. And so do the pearls in them.

[Josh]

Hi All,
Knotty said earlier in this post that you could only see half of them. I don't think this is true because all you can really see on the pearls is the section of pearl that is highlighted by the light. AAA seems generous to me and at the same time I think it is good to give circled pearls a little more leeway than most in regards to their flaws simply because in circled pearls there is a strong tendency to have more color than in rounds and semibaroques.