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The good thing about stringing is that you can't really break anything. You just start over if it wasn't good enough to wear :)

You can try to search for something like it on eBay and look at what sold and at what price. It doesn't look like very good quality and some of them don't look like pearls so maybe your best bet is to sell in bulk as 'arts and crafts' materials.

Absolutely Pearl Paradise :-) https://www.pearlparadise.com - you have to set up an appointment, though.

As far as I know, only Sarah from Kojima sells authentic Kasumi pearls but I may be wrong.

You may want to learn to string yourself. There are guides and lots of advice here.

"The vendor has great feedback but..." Feedback can be bought these days.

They also seem to have very low luster, probably more like matte in real life, so they look like cheap pearls too s well as dyed FW.

Cees can also ship from Europe which was a great to help to me in Denmark, not having to pay extra costs for goods entering the EU.

There is also Cees (one person) whom many here has bought from, myself included. You can find him on Instagram.

The flat sides is something I've never seen in Tahitians, only FW.

I had a strand of naturally golden Akoya pearls that I ended up finding a new home for because pale yellow is just not my color. It looked lovely, though.

I would have had my eyes constantly fixed on the pearls and not know the faces of anyone there :D What a picture treat!

Thinner thread! Unless it is only one or two pearls where it's tight. You do not want to enlarge all the holes.

"I can't help but wonder if he's privately laughing at what idiots we all are" - this, absolutely.

Jeremy is the owner of Pearl Paradise and have decades of pearl experience. If he says something, he is sure :-)