Recent content by pearlbop

Merry Christmas Douglas and Patty! Hope that you and your families are keeping well. :) Thanks again for the tips, very useful, especially on checking local laws on hygiene and returns and how to deal with potential fraud and theft. Patty, you are right - I'm not yet up to the task of matching...

I googled this and the first reference was to a Christie's auction! That's quite a book!

Thanks very much Douglas! :) I've done the Pearls as One Course, but shall do it again to refresh my memory. I was doing a little more research and saw that Pearl Science Lab also holds short courses in Japan (temporarily suspended due to the pandemic), focused purely on Akoya pearls. In the...

Hi guys, Apologies in advance if this is not the right forum… I was looking for some tips / advice on starting a pearl retail business. I know that many of the members here are also sellers and it's understandable if you need to protect business knowledge, but I am in a region of the world...

The dealers that the others have mentioned have been vouched for by many other members of the forum. If you are in the US, I believe they offer free returns, and they should be quite helpful in selecting strands and sending you pictures of actual strands. If you are not in the US, see if you...

Beautiful! It looks lovely on your finger

They look very lux!

Gorgeous! Hope you get to wear them very soon!

All along I've been thinking that I was a strictly perfectly-round-pearl kind of girl, except for perfect drop shapes. Then I saw these (2015) pictures of fashion blogger Peony Lim's gorgeous statement pearl earrings and headpiece that she wore for her wedding. They look like south sea baroques...

My equally untrained eye thought that the luster of the mikis was just a smidgeon better, but they are also significantly smaller and I think it gets harder to get good luster as the pearl size goes bigger right? Nevertheless, the neck shot proves that the PP strand is perfect for you and...

Amazing nails! They capture the "rainbow" sheen that I think I see on your pearls

I can't stop staring at these... the colours are so perfect and really makes the left pearl pop

Loving your blues and also the golden-peach studs

Amazing pearls. Wish I could see them in real life!

Exactly, so I declined her offer. She actually claimed to have one but didn't send a picture. I told her that I was open to viewing them first (with the mind to request she go to a local gem lab if the cert looked suspicious to me), but she seemed very keen to close the trade without letting me...