Hello!
I’ve posted here before and you lovely people helped me identify and restring my beloved mother in law’s freshwater pearls that she gave me shortly before she passed away last year, and I wear them all the time in her memory.
I’ve now inherited the rest of her jewellery collection. It includes two more pearl necklaces. She comes from a long line of fairly wealthy people. I don’t know any history on them, they were just in her “special” jewellery box which contained other things generally belonging to her mother and grandmothers. She wouldn’t have bought them herself as they aren’t her style, so would likely have been inherited from a mother or grandmother. They would have most likely come from England or Germany as this is where her family are mostly from, but possibly also France.
I just want to double check these aren’t anything special before I go trying to restring them myself again - I’d only want to do that with freshwater ones as I’m not so bothered if I damage any of them!
The first is graduated from about 3mm to about 7. It has a silver clasp marked NKa and 800. The string is very fragile, as I handled it the end snapped and one Pearl came off. The pearls are quite grubby so aren’t at their best but are still pretty, I’m too scared to wipe them down now as it snapped with handling. They are knotted but the knots are so tiny you can hardly tell.
The second they are all about 7mm. It has a silver clasp marked B35. This is a bit more robust. It is also a bit grubby.
The photos are taken on my phone on a very dreary day in the west of Ireland so the light isn’t great! If you need better photos I’ll try again when (if) it’s a bit sunnier!
Thanks so much for any help!
The first one
The second one
I’ve posted here before and you lovely people helped me identify and restring my beloved mother in law’s freshwater pearls that she gave me shortly before she passed away last year, and I wear them all the time in her memory.
I’ve now inherited the rest of her jewellery collection. It includes two more pearl necklaces. She comes from a long line of fairly wealthy people. I don’t know any history on them, they were just in her “special” jewellery box which contained other things generally belonging to her mother and grandmothers. She wouldn’t have bought them herself as they aren’t her style, so would likely have been inherited from a mother or grandmother. They would have most likely come from England or Germany as this is where her family are mostly from, but possibly also France.
I just want to double check these aren’t anything special before I go trying to restring them myself again - I’d only want to do that with freshwater ones as I’m not so bothered if I damage any of them!
The first is graduated from about 3mm to about 7. It has a silver clasp marked NKa and 800. The string is very fragile, as I handled it the end snapped and one Pearl came off. The pearls are quite grubby so aren’t at their best but are still pretty, I’m too scared to wipe them down now as it snapped with handling. They are knotted but the knots are so tiny you can hardly tell.
The second they are all about 7mm. It has a silver clasp marked B35. This is a bit more robust. It is also a bit grubby.
The photos are taken on my phone on a very dreary day in the west of Ireland so the light isn’t great! If you need better photos I’ll try again when (if) it’s a bit sunnier!
Thanks so much for any help!
The first one
The second one
