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Jeremy, thank you so much for sharing your expertise! Your insight into the history of pearling is immensely valuable. But now I'm a bit stumped. I asked this question because I have a pearl necklace that my mother was given on her 13th birthday in 1958 (and which I got on my 13th birthday)...

I'm sure this is an easy question, but I'm having a hard time trying to figure out when near-round cultured freshwater pearls came to be commonplace. I have Renee Newman's book and she talks about Biwa pearls with a bead nucleus emerging in the 1930s internationally--would these have been...

Hi Pattye and BWeaves, Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts! Nearly all of my gram's jewelry was Japanese origin/inspired, so it's interesting that you think they might be Biwas. I know she had this necklace by no later than 1976 or 1977, because I remember very clearly playing with it...

I discovered PG a few weeks ago and have lurking in every corner and soaking up all the amazing information you so generously share. Thank you all! So now I'm bravely making my first post and, like so many previous posters, it's about a strand of pearls inherited from a grandmother. In my...