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They look like baroque SS pearls to me, too. Great price. Cute clasp. Enjoy!

Per Jeremy, the new PearlsAsOne course has new information, since it's been 10 years since the course was first offered and freshwater pearls in particular have changed a lot. There's more and better videos. The course was originally designed for jewelry sellers, but morphed into pearl...

The new PearlsAsOne course dropped right before Pearls By The Bay, so it should be on the PearlsAsOne website. I haven't looked yet. It's PJs and Pearls today. My new jade and freshwaters with The Queen pendant from Kojima.

Oh, these are lovely! Thank you for sharing your photos.

Natural color akoya pearls compared with akoya pearls that have been bleached and pinked. Most akoya pearls come out of the oyster a greenish or yellowish color. Then then go through maeshori, a secret pre-process to tighten the nacre, remove moisture, and increase luster and whiteness. The...

Yesterday was Kasumi earrings (Kojima) and Chinese ripple necklace (Pacific Pearls). They are even more colorful in real life.

Wearing some of my new pearls today. All from Kojima. Freshwater pearls and jade, plus some other gemstones. Herkimer diamond (quartz), tourmaline, labradorite, moonstone. amethyst. The earrings make me feel like I should be walking around Pompeii in a toga. I love the asymmetry of the...

I agree with PD.

Fascinating.

Pearls by the Bay was so much fun. JEG and I both talked about our trips to Japan to visit pearl farms. I enjoyed JEG's talk because she went to different pearl farms than I did. Jeremy talked about the new Pearls as One course. And Enrique talked about Sea of Cortez pearls. My jeans are...

My guess is, GM Pollack stores used that box for everything, not just pearls. It was probably their generic box.

In addition to the peachy colors, the potato shapes are typical of non-bead nucleated freshwater pearls from China. Your pearls are 100% pearl nacre. There is no shell bead at the center. Enjoy wearing them!!!

These pearls don't even remotely look like South Sea or Tahitian pearls. They really, really look like Chinese freshwater pearls, with the Tahitians being badly dyed.

Yay! I'm so glad they are continuing this!

So, should we retape the box and return to sender? Preferably with garbage in the box?