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Sometimes the universe organizes itself in the most marvelous way. I truly believe that some pearls are just sent to us to be discovered, rescued and appreciated to their true value (I wanted to write self... but does a pearl has a self :-) What a beautiful example of that. So awesome this...

Thank you so much Pearl Dream ! How did you do that ? I spend 10 min to try to figure it out and could not....

Its one long rope. Not sure of the length, but I find it very versatile. I think the pearls are 7.5 Thanks GG ! An yes, I'd love to see more examples of how PGers wear their basic pearl strand I've changed it since this morning as the brooch is quite heavy and it was starting to strangle me...

Here you go ! This is me in the office now with my basic freshwater necklace. I've been playing a lot with it and its twin in lilac color. I've always like brooches, but could never find a way to wear them comfortably. Now that I've fallen in the world of pearls, I took a new look at all my old...

Jeans, fleece, and rubber boots. Walking under the moon light at low tide on a pacific nortwest island beach. No pearl, but found a beautiful starfish. Happy New Year all !! ( another hour to go before kisses under the miseltoe)

If there isn't already one, we should create a thread for "clueless ebay seller of pearl" ;-) Conch pearl ! seriously ? even a young spat like me can tell !

don't tempt me ! I'm trying very hard to be good... and I need to save for a bigger natural one a few months down the road :-)

Being in Hawaii and being sick ? that's the worse !! Take care of yourself and get well. How about a hot Mai Tai grog ?;)

Continuing to try to develop my "pearl eye". Here is another one I've decided not to bid on: 1 - If it's an akoya necklace, then... I don't want one 2- If it's a natural one, I already have one similar (although mine is a little smaller) and my pearl budget for the month is tapped out My...

You guys are sooooo good. It takes you a 30 sec look and you know ! My instinct told me it was old akoya, but I could not tell why.... never even thought of the stone on the clasp as a clue. Thanks for the learnings !

This is a strand of pearls that I've followed for a couple of months. I followed it because everything seems "off" in this listing hence interesting for my pearl continuing education. I had start forgetting about it, but this morning, the listing has disappeared, there was a weird flashing...

So excited to have another set of pearls to look at !! thanks Helen for sharing your little box treasure ! Of course, as soon as I think I know more about pearls, I realize I know only about 1 pearl !! (mine) So I can't tell much... of course I see "things" but is it the focus, the light...

I'm also longing for one of your strand Dawn !

Thanks you Dave, it's always so educative to read you. Really appreciating you taking the time. I found this pearl very challenging to candle. If the hole (for light beam) was too small, no light was showing through the pearl at all. The only way was to saturate the pearl, and then it was...

Yep, I'm challenged at the camera level too ! The pictures looks sharper on my phone than when I post them ..... I might put a USB microscope on my list for santa... But i don't have much natural pearls to candle.... So which one come first ? ;-)

I can't remove the last pic that is a duplicate. The one I think is cool is the one before last. Look like an eye ball with the nuclei as the pupil. The setting on top makes it look like a vikking helmet ;-) i'll add a pic without candling in the previous post.

I finally succeed in candling my silver/blue pearl with my 2 iphones setup ! Yeahhh ! And if i learned the teaching of this thread well, it supports the case for it being a natural pearl . No geometrical lines or shapes indicative od a bead nuclei, random patches of conchiolin at different...

Hi Dawn , Could your translucent pearls be majolica ? I don't have any to candle for comparison, but i did candle some fake pearls, and there are 100% translucent too. The light is somewhat diffrent in your pearl, but may be the comparison will help ? I think i read somewhere in the forum...

Thank you for your encouragements for the palette tool. I know i'll get there in due time. I'm quite computer savy, hence frustrated to be a beginner in a image/photo software. I'm currently focusing on candling and happy to report that i had my first sucess tonight. Will post in the candling...

Such awesome pearls ! Natural or faux make sense ... The wood box in particular look BC (Before Cultured ;-) The little golden ones look like pipi poe from lolopearl thread.... Beautiful images before going to sleep... Now i know what I'm going to count : one pearl, two pearls....