Recent content by A Breaker

LorenLL Laughing, It might look cool and professional to other professionals...to the "average" buyer it is just confusing. But I certainly learned lots and that is why I put this up... I can see that the desk lamp is really useful, while people who don't know won't be totally confused. They...

Lee, Tasaki is fairly famous and still in business today.. But it is the back of the clasp that is marked.

Wow! That really does tell a lot about the pearls! Thank you so much LorenLL!!! So people can more accurately tell the color & matching (assuming I remember how that works)...It also helps me spot the roundness more easily. I am still laughing about the photo...if I needed an expert's...

Well...I don't feel so ignorant. Hopefully someone in the pearl trade knows.

Turn both clasps over & take a photo. I will bet that the shorter strand is Tasaki.... but you need to post a photo of the back. You can still restring both...Pattye has a kit even with all you need.

This is sort of a Military thing, Following the Second World War...so 1950's many military we stationed in Asia and people love to sell things to the military to take back their their sweethearts. The graduated strand allowed a more affordable price, while being special pearls for the...

Is that what it is trying to show me...overtones? I don't understand why? Is that verifying they are akoyas?

I found out thru lots of moving where things getting lost & ruined.... that you DON'T really need most jewelry appraised for insurance. If it is under a couple thousand... most insurance will take a photo & eBay equal as replacement value, unless you have a sales slip for more. (You can even...

It seems very important, but I am trying to understand what they are showing... anyone help me?

Pella...It is those swooping triangles are the same! I am so glad I asked! This has all been such a mystery...lovely pearls....., maybe Mikimoto clasp, but not quite right......Is it fake?.....the pearls are so lovely, usually fake anything is just low quality.....so glad someone posted their...

Before I restring these, I thought these were just normal, but is this a Mikimoto clasp? I think I see the M and then I think I don't. The stamp looks kind of like MK's stamp. It is old Akoyas with really nice nacre and worth saving.

KarinK.... Looking locally seems brilliant! But there are always people getting rid of things, either giving to charities or reselling in every country. I also recently looked up thread options in EU and while hard for me (living in the US) to find...there were options. Mikimoto uses...

BWeaves...love that story & your information! That is really helpful! I doubt I will be that skilled, yet I can see that from when I joined here and knew very little...I still could only tell real from imitation and not without lots of looking & "tooth testing".... to now I can tell imitation...

Polforos... I had a good friend who owned a jewelry store...she said, many people would bring in very worn items for repair....but a few, very few would bring in items that looked "hardly worn" they said that they wore them every day and want to sell them for something different. She said it...

That is so very interesting!!! I love the 12 ways jewelry kit... back in the day... so much fun...my grandmother talked about the Coro Duo brooches...but that takes it to a whole different level!!