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Thank you all for your thoughts. These definitely have a good lustre, so Middle Eastern fits. On talking further with my friend, the Aunt, who left them as a bequest, had lost her husband and daughter to the war and fled Austria to England, where she ended up working as a housemaid, so we...

Thanks for the encouragement! My friend is excited to be able to wear her pearls again, so well worth the patient effort with these. :)

Here they are, all strung. Looking at pictures, it may not be the norm to knot between these, but it has made them long enough. The first picture shows the difference between the nuggetty original pearls and the rice crispie style ones that someone seems to have added (this could have been...

Thank you for the thoughts - I was thinking Middle Eastern too, so I'm glad I'm not totally off base. I am fascinated by them, although they are small. I think there is some more recent pearls in there that may have been mixed in to lengthen it - they have a larger hole, so I have moved them...

A friend in her mid-eighties asked me to re-string these pearls for her. She said her Aunt had given them to her mother, back in Austria and that she thought they were at least 100 years old. I presume they would be natural pearls? What sort of oysters and regions would have been producing...

"Pearleas Fogg" - that's brilliant!

Giving it a name is a great idea - suggestions welcome!

Yes, it is large - 15mm by 19mm, so a good statement pearl and lots of lustre!

I ordered this carved tahitian pearl from Kamoka, just after New Zealand went into Covid-19 lockdown in early April. After a couple of logs with USPS, the tracking stopped and I was really very worried as to whether it would ever be seen again. Celeste from Kamoka was amazing and helped to try...

Thanks all for the lovely comments. I'm wearing mine to work today (Monday morning here) and will give my mood a boost. I haven't been on here much after a difficult year personally, but have still managed to acquire a few pearls and hope to find time to post pictures of them soon. :)

This sale bought the price of a colorful tahitian strand into my budget range at last! I picked up the Blooming Basil strand and I'm delighted with it! The colours change so much in different lights, but here are a couple of shots in natural light:

Thanks Pattye - it is good to know what sort of nacre thickness is typical of akoyas. I haven't had much experience of them. I'm not sure how it would be measured without destroying the pearl, but it is certainly not thick on these. There are also a few obvious blemishes and some quite...

Thanks everyone. If the clasp turns up, I will add a picture...

Hi - yes, as I mentioned in the first post, the clasp is not the original as they have been re-strung. She is trying to find the original clasp for me, which might tell me more. I was more interested in whether the poor nacre thickness would have ruled out Mikimoto... there would be less than...

A friend has brought me her pearls to look at. She says her father brought them back from Japan in the late 1960's and that they are Mikimoto, although she did not expect that they were hugely valuable. She has had them re-strung and it appears someone has likely changed the order of them, as...