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Amti, how cool wouldn't that be; mini south seas:D!!! - But bead nucleated freshwaters with that shape is super cool to. I forgot about them cause it's so busy just now, but now I just had look at them again:)

When was freshwater pearls first bead nucleated? It is very interesting! to me it is not of any importance if they are akoyas or not, I just want to understand what I see. It's very cool if they are early bead nucleated freshwaters or if they are small south seas. Value - if any does not matter...

WOW, this is beautiful work!

Thank you Nora! I guess I'll never find out about the stamp, but this is also why I so incredible weak when it comes to vintage and antique jewelry:)!

I think so too! I was 80% sure it was bras, but because it was no sign of tarnish and no smell to it I thought gold filled. The weight of it it is 7.2 gr, pearls included. I find it intriguing��

Update to my "Cyrillic necklace": I had it acid tested and it is 585 gold. It's fun, but in the same time it makes me even more curious about the stamp on it��

Haha, I agree:)! Maybe it is cryillic! - this is the reason why I like old jewelry so much, it's intriguing!

Maybe:)! Gonna be fun to get the answers of the acid test, but the circled pearls are the really fun part! Is it a way to find out if it's freshwaters? They are said be old, but that is a very flexible term..:)

Takk KarinK! I'm Norwegian and I agree, it's absolutely not Norwegian:)!

Is the rings a common flaw on low quality akoyas? It was the rings that made me think of freshwaters .

Ha ha, I didn't. I actually sent the photo of the stamp to two people form the middle east. One said it might be Hebrew writing., the other one said it night be Greek. It's anyway greek to me and I'm too curious, so I took the necklaces to a goldSmith and she said she believed it's Norwegian...

yes Pattye, I have a 10x and a 12x loupe. I bought them after you recommended me to get one. I'm happy I did, and thank you for your advise,- the loupe is geniuses ��! I'm going to loupe my super- barouqe pearls as soon as I'm finish cleaning my messy house... if I sit down with it...

Oh, Pattye where can you see the bead nucleus? Maybe it's some over- barouqe akoyas after all, something put together and sold to someone just as sea pearls? Or maybe some one tried to bead nucleic freshwater pearls and had this result? It's a quite a fun strand I think. I'm going to take that...

closeup of the ringed strand.

Thank you Pattye:)! - I am ridiculously weak when it comes to old jewelry . Here is another photo, maybe it's better.