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Way back then a doting father would want to buy his lovely daughter a string of pearls for her 21st.But most could not afford real pearls, so a string of good fakes stepped in. These were such pearls. They were the best he could afford. Honour them as symbols of love in a different era.

It's taken me a bit of burrowing into the archives but here is Josh Humbert of Kamoka pearls making a personal delivery of a strand in front of some s old rocks..and Lordie, my red hair

Maybe deliberate but if so not very well done.

Something off about these - so many frayed ends poking out of the knots

Completely agree. Doesn't apply so much here as the pearl came off the post, but over the years of making up earrings, especially studs, I've found a rogue slightly larger post in a batch of earring findings more often than I care to think about. There's fraction of a mm between nice and snug...

Jeremy is right. Even without the link to look at the pearls, I can tell you that a strand of even pretty bad quality akoya pearls will cost more than that. I also recommend you look at freshwater pearls. Will you also be shopping for a clasp, French wire and thread since you mention you are...

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You are, of course, ahead of the pack Pattye

Probably standard bead nucleated freshwaters.

Some seriously good luster going on there!

Just from that one photo, those look more like freshwater pearls to me.

Heart-shaped pearls ..instagram..Droolworth (Katbran and I spent about a cupful of drool time looking at them in Hong Kong) alainboitepearls

Do you want to make a business from pearls or do you want to become a knowledgeable pearl owner? (and thanks for the recommend Douglas) Either way an aspiration to learn, learn some more and then learn even more is a good thing. With pearls there is always something new to learn and to...

Dyed freshwater stick pearl. I posted a photo of similar from ebay in another thread.

That's why having a glue which you know can be dissolved is a solace when you've made 20pr of earrings and go back later to see one finding has hydrauliced (?) itself out of the pearl

I'm always glad when the pearl itself tells you ' drill here please'

I deliberately did not identify the pearl farm/company at their request. That is a sorted bag of akoya from one of their akoya farms. It's sorted. The photo I posted earlier in this thread showed an unsorted pile of pearls which was a day's harvest from one grafter. I was there and saw it being...

I concur that they are freshwater, if the gold/peach colour is accurate. That is typical of freshwater pearls. But they are little darlings. I'd probably remove the gold beads and the bigger rounds and let them speak out on their own - maybe one long strand which you can wear long or doubled.

But not recently...