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Merry Christmas Douglas and Patty! Hope that you and your families are keeping well. :)

Thanks again for the tips, very useful, especially on checking local laws on hygiene and returns and how to...

I googled this and the first reference was to a Christie's auction! That's quite a book!

Thanks very much Douglas! :)

I've done the Pearls as One Course, but shall do it again to refresh my memory. I was doing a little more research and saw that Pearl Science Lab also holds short...

Hi guys,

Apologies in advance if this is not the right forum…

I was looking for some tips / advice on starting a pearl retail business. I know that many of the members here are also sellers and...

The dealers that the others have mentioned have been vouched for by many other members of the forum. If you are in the US, I believe they offer free returns, and they should be quite helpful in...

Beautiful! It looks lovely on your finger

They look very lux!

Gorgeous! Hope you get to wear them very soon!

All along I've been thinking that I was a strictly perfectly-round-pearl kind of girl, except for perfect drop shapes. Then I saw these (2015) pictures of fashion blogger Peony Lim's gorgeous...

My equally untrained eye thought that the luster of the mikis was just a smidgeon better, but they are also significantly smaller and I think it gets harder to get good luster as the pearl size goes...

Amazing nails! They capture the "rainbow" sheen that I think I see on your pearls

I can't stop staring at these... the colours are so perfect and really makes the left pearl pop

Glad that you found this interesting! I learnt so much from this forum prior to this trip, that helped me check what to look for and also narrow down what kind of pearls I wanted, so I hope that this...

I know ;) That strand just blew me away. I had to talk some sense into myself into not getting it, because for 10 minutes an irrational part of me was like "what if I never see a strand like that...

Hi Pattye,

Sorry, I only just got home last night. It's actually not perfectly round, so 11.85 x 11.45 mm according to the lab cert. I did think it is very unusual too, so I bought it when I saw...

Loving your blues and also the golden-peach studs

Anyway, final pictures / post from my Japan Mar 2019 trip. I visited quite a few mikimoto stores and they were all lovely. In one particular store, I saw this strand and nearly died. It's placed...

Amazing pearls. Wish I could see them in real life!

Thanks for your kind remarks! :D

Also, at the risk of this turning into a "me and my pearls" thread, here is a (admittedly dark) photo of the 9.0mm mikimoto A+ studs I once owned, in case anyone...

Okay!

I just deleted and reattached the photos; they are all quite small, so hope it is showing up for everyone now. It's showing up on mine at the moment!

So, on the same seller, he was a small wholesaler of sorts: I saw people come in to pick up small batches of orders, and apparently they ran small social-media shops in China etc.

I bought a 8.0...

Hi Seoulite,

Apologies, I got really busy with work right after this (I used to work in a bank), and never logged back on till today. On Tenyo grades, the only pearls that I found that I was...

Thanks very much for this insight Jeremy, it is incredibly enlightening. While here I have seen a lot of “hanadama” strands being sold - there are a lot of non-PSL labs offering this certification as...

Hi Seoulite,

Yes I was there! It’s such an interesting place! May I know which shop you bought yours from eventually? I did see your thread but not sure if you mentioned the name. I’m thinking of...

Oops apologies! I’ll try posting again later (posting from mobile so might not be doing this right)