Recent content by Pearlgully

If you are buying it online and the seller does not accept returns....... I would not buy it!!!

Unfortunately, this happens! If you need the pearl, here is my solution, however, you will have to restring. I put some Vigor glue in a plastic squeeze bottle applicator. I have various sizes to fit the pearl hole. I squeeze the glue into the pearl hole so that the bead/nucleus connects to the...

Today, I am wearing my Sea of Cortez mabe pearl earrings, hand fabricated in 22k gold. I purchased the pearls, a long time ago, from Perlas del Mar de Cortez, at the gem show in Tucson.

I started collecting golden South Sea keshi pearls more than 20 years ago. it took me ten years to put this necklace together. As the saying goes, "I wish I knew then, what I know now".

You are correct. There is definitely not much out there! A number of years ago, pearl farmers started x-raying their mollusks to ensure that the pearls being cultured were going to be round. Anything other than round i.e. keshi, baroque, were destroyed; then they'd start over. The reason they...

Thank you, BWeaves.

Today, I wore a pair of freshwater pearl earrings with Mediterranean coral drops that were hand fabricated in 22k gold. Both the pearls and the coral drops were purchased almost 20 years ago at the Tucson GJX show. The pearl strand is a “Freshadama”, (all nacre, cultured, freshwater from China)...

Lagoon Island Pearls, How right you are and thank you for saying it!!! I have been wanting to say this for sometime but have refrained ....... I have been a member of this forum for over 20 years and felt it a privilege to have learned so much. However, in the last several months, this forum has...

BWeaves, your photos and posts are heartfelt and beautiful. A great experience & memory. I identify with this and it brought tears to my eyes.

What a treat it was to live vicariously through these wonderful photos!

I'm pretty sure the GIA revised their website. See if this works: https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/w...ageLocale=en_US&query=australian+Akoya+pearls

Metallic silver / gray Tahitian keshi necklace with blue tourmaline beads and wrapped with 22k wire. Earrings are also Tahitian keshis.

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I agree. To me they look like dyed freshwater….. especially if they are all the same color.

Sorry for your loss. May her memory be a blessing.