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Thanks a lot for such beautiful words..made my day!!!

As per my grandfather it was purchased from the princely estate of Hyderabad in mid 18th century.. So i guess its been worn by the prince as well as by the queen :P

Hii there, The approximate sizes are: Smallest pearl-6.4 mm Largest Pearl-18.7 mm

Thanks a lot..will do that and get back to u

My pleasure..Have to measure the mm size..will get back to you as soon as its is done. Thanks for such great words..

Hiii Caitlin. Apologies from my part..Glad that you liked those..Again a family owned necklace. In the family since last 150 odd years.

One more pearl necklace.. One more pearl necklace.. Hi there, was inactive for long.Here again bringing you a 32 piece Natural pearl necklace. Natural because, basra term offends lots of people here. The size wary from 3.2 carats to 13.5 carats.

Dont know wat is it... Please help...

Some more pearls...

Oh my God...I guess there is some serious comprehending problem, Anyways i can understand the way Caitlin is reacting on this. She is a senior member of this pearl forum and i respect her views totally, its just that attack of hers on the Generic term "Basra" makes me feel sad.

That was heavy..Well with all those arguments, discussions etc i am no authority to say weather it is basra or just another natural pearl. But yeah i just posted the pic of the necklace i possess coz for me it looks something different and is very dear to me. Now you hold your scientific side...

I never said that all pearls look alike, i just said that most of the pearls i saw in those princely estates are more or like same in there lustres,shapes etc. and thats the reason why we here in India call them as "Basra" pearls. Now if you question the authenticity of Christie/sothby's etc...

@Caitlin Well to support my argument that those Baroda pearls are indeed basra pearls i can let you have a chat with the "Gaikwad's" who are the rulers of the princly estate of Baroda and now when you say "how does they know what is basra and how does they differentiate from Pinctada maximas"...

Sorry for the delay in photographs as i am out of station.. Well for Your information i am sharing a link, have a read and met me know weather basra pearls are round or not, and yeah one more thing they are indeed found in Basra which is a place near Iran...

Yeahhh will do that and upload the snaps asap... Between the size of the pearls are in the range from 1.4 mm to 9.2 mm...