Thank you so much for the information. I never saw mom wearing them but we do have a photograph of her when she was 16 and they were beautiful against a light blue sweater.
My dad gave my mother some pearls in the mid 1940's. I thought he brought them back to her from the Philipines when he was in the service, but he doesn't remember and my mom is longer here with us on this earth. Wish I had talked to her about them, among many other things, before she dies. I...