Recent content by ghperiwinkle

These blue baroque akoyas are on apparently the monthly special at PP again. After seeing all the beautiful longer strands from the last round, I soooo wanted to have a 36-inch necklace too. Unfortunately, the necklaces sold out so fast last time, and the subsequent returns were not great...

Ummmm... Ummmm... I'm sorry, I love pearls, but this strand is really too much of a good thing...

They are beautiful, Pearlcat! Very different from the typical pearl necklaces. Is the gemfresh strand comprised of lavendar pearls? I think this was asked elsewhere, but TPO's Gemfresh is PearlParadise.com's freshadama equivalent, right?

Thanks, GemGeek! Actually I have lurked for several years, and have learned so much from all of the Senior Pearl-Guide.com Pearl Experts. Thank you for generously sharing your knowleage and passion for pearls with us. I am very lucky that I live within a 5 minute walk to the PP Showroom and...

I give up!!! I give up!!! I must say you are all the worst (best) enablers. I kept my self-control for over two weeks, ever since Callire's first post, patting myself all the while on my back for saving my pocketbook. Then... the photos kept coming. Raj's photos had my trigger finger...

Thanks for the comments. Yes, I thought that they are most likely design from the 70's through maybe the early 90's too, certaining not earlier. Maybe at $200 it would be okay for fun jewelry, if the pearls were real and not faux. I was certainly not expecting SW naturals. I read the 16 mm...

Hi Jeremy and other pearl experts, So along the same line, are they FW or SW pearls in this pair of earrings offered by the same seller? Supposedly they are 16 mm for the drop pearls... Kind of like the Vermeer-esque drops that was on the discussions boards last year, right? 16 mm is so...