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few photos of the the variety of natural pearls surfacing from collections and owned by a current collector

One necklace is assorted FWCP the other is assorted Tahitian and Akoya mixed. We passed making one with our natural Mississippi River Pearl collection.

As I traveled for sales beginning in 1965 I collected assorted natural pearls from jewelers between Burlington, Iowa and Brainerd, Minnesorta along the River.....Yes the blacks are natural Miss. R. basin pearls. None are reworked hinges. Note: in the 1920's this River was a major world source...

HI I have had a few of these and every once in awhile some thing is made out of one of them. We sold few of these in silver so I thought 14ky might work. In spite of all we are at office every day. Ten miles from home in country so no buses/subways/trains. Did that in my younger days. Norm

Vietnamese Cowrie pearl in SS found this and other in a back alley at the Tucson show a few years back. Quite unusual. It is a pearl coated cowrie shell. Very much like the Buddhists did in early China. Norm

I repaired a 3mm hole in a AA+ 15mm Australian. (short story, customer wanted 3 mystery clasps in a 48" necklace (( wear different lengths)) Well a few years later the customer traded it in with my customer . The 6 pearls used for the 3 mystery clasps are some what ruined with such a large...

I examined these natural pearls last fall.......current owner harvested mussels after church in the 1940's In several years cleaned a couple truck loads (tons) of shell looking for pearls. Eventually sold the shell to a still operating button company. some of the best I have seen lately Norm

I'm back.........I have been stringing and selling for 49+ years and have NO experience with this needle. Of my customers only 2-3 really know about stringing. I am a silk adherent although my associate has just tried super silk (name) and she likes it. So it goes. I was given 10,000...

Bought this awhile back. Few pearls missing. Time and patience required to replace. Cameos are not carved. Interesting piece though and looks good on open neck.

30 mm wing pearl weighs 5 ct and acquired Oct 2013 might be from Wisconsin River near where it joins Mississippi River.

8 round , 1/2 round and baroque Miss. River pearls

2mm to 4.8mm I got these in 2014 never seen black ones before. NL

Our company hs been stringing since 1939. So. For some time good silk has been difficult to buy and lots of imitation silk has been raved. Italian silk isn't as easy to work with. We purchased silk from Rio Grands, make in China, super stuff. Very slippery (from the length of the...

My daughter and another designer made a few of these. I'll try and upload pearl-man aka Norm

i hope this works

From Maine Antique digest May 2013...> " A string of 75 graduated natural pearls ;in a light ivory scream color with a Tiffany 18k-w clasp set with 3 European-cut diamonds. .....The 8,000-12,000 $ estimate was compleely ignored and bidders chased it tan an astonishing $143,750.00. "Tiffany...

In the 39 years of doing this I've seen some nice material, cultured and natural, this one was mine untile I traded it last summer. I don't remember where I got it from and wasn't smart enought to provinance it. ;( 12mm maybe off round by .2mm.....GIA cert as Natural American pearl.

3mm natural color Miss. River Basin pearl inside a hand blown bottle. 35mm total height +\-

I hope this works from my pad.