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Are they drilled?

They do look a bit like that, yes. If you want that multicoloured or black = dark blue or dark green or dark aubergine look then that would be freshwater as far as I know

Black akoya do tend to be black while black freshwater are usually anything but black - it is how the dye works

I have many conjoined pearls, mostly pairsThese are freshwater, natural colours. No caulking

Explain the caulking at the seams then

It looks to me like several pearls have been glued together. You can see a silvery line in the valleys which are joins which I am guessing is some sort of caulk, filler or glue.

What did I start????

Your reasoning?

What a great trip! Looking forward to hearing all the news.

The knotting is not great quality, very wispy, but that could be a bad re-string WG is not me.

Oysters of all species are a bit like sheep, they just hang around until they find a way to die

Superglue - especially gel superglue - every time. Epoxy is just not reliable enough and does not have a dissolver. Superglue needs moisture to set btw

The pearl is not natural.It is a low quality freshwater pearl, inappropriately set. The silver is below commercial sterling 925 standard and not sellable at all in Europe as it contains nickel.

How do you know it is 'very old' and Turkish?

Not sure that the Tahitian pearl actress thing is 100%. Most of the pearls stuck in customs, people are in prison and it all went totally nacred. Did anyone hear anything from the OP?