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We made it to Guaymas! Lunch before heading to the farm!

Can you take better shots of the seed pearls?

This has some beautiful Rikitea colors :love:

Do you have a larger photo? I can't make the image out clearly, but I suspect it is a hardening agent that was applied to blemishes or holes in the nacre. I've seen this done on strands and it looks like it's painted on - almost like a paste or some sort of cement. The color is the same as the...

I'm sad you're going to miss it! Douglas is coming with us too. It's going to be a lot of fun!

You snagged a beautiful strand! Those colors are hard to come by :)

Now THAT is a blast from the past, lol!

That clasp!!!! :love:

They appear to be the real deal!

I don't have photos of what I was describing, but I wouldn't be too concerned about it. The colors in the necklace you posted appear to be natural and the pearls are undrilled, so I think you're safe. They show a lot of pastels and exotic colors with strong contrast making them pop. It's a very...

Hisano and I are in!

I was in Hong Kong last week and Loic still has the 20 mm Tahitian pearl. He's asking $60,000 (wholesale). It is an amazing pearl! He brought out a crazy-color tray of singles too -

It's a baroque akoya pearl

They pearls seem fine and are dyed. The smaller beads do not look like pearls.

They appear to have been damaged. It looks like chemical damage.

Can you share a photo of the piece with a $7500 price tag? I saw your other thread too and don't see anything with that number on it. I do see some numbers on the tags, but they don't correlate to the pearls. The snippet below, for example, shows 7150 for small, side-drilled Biwa sticks. These...

Most of the loose akoya pearls appear to have been stored in plastic zip lock bags. If they've been in a small airtight container for that long, the nacre will be brittle. The attached snippet shows pearls that really aren't usable. The nacre is dried up and mostly gone. It's not really...

I love what you did with it :), and I'm so sorry to hear about Bacon :(.

I see biwa freshwater hanks, short strands that could be left over from shortening a standard length or combining strands for a longer length (same with loose bags) and a lot of akoya half drills. Most of the half drills appear to be 3/4 pearls - pearls with blemishes shaved to be set as...

At the show last week, Asia Pearl had a large selection of different WSS mabé pearls in different sizes, shapes and qualities. They had a few lots being offered for more than $200 per pearl.