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Love the colors by the way...

I'd love to go, I know Peter has always wanted to as well. Gonna have to talk him into it.

I have recently peeled a pearl it is certainly a job that requires alot of patients, I wouldn't want to do it too often. The results were interesting. Half of the pearl was beautiful and half of the pearl was worse than what I took off. It did take a pearl that was otherwise useless to me and...

Looks like both links are gone

Without a doubt freshwater pearls

I have heard from many of our suppliers the show is expected to be very slow.

Too bad..The picture looked good anyway...

I hope you offered a little more for it than the per piece asking price on the lot and kept it..

I kind of thought they were Faux pearls myself, the holes just don't look right

If you look at pearls at say a low end retail store and then go to a higher end retail store you'll be able to tell the thick from the thin very fast.

Spotting can be on any thickness of nacre.

As far as knowing the difference experience goes a long way in distiguishing Akoya from freshwater pearls, I have been buying them for around 15 years now and there are very few times I have to second guess myself when I have them in front of me.

At first glance in the small picture they looked off round which is one of the major factors in spotting a freshwater pearl, after looking at the larger photo I changed my opinion. The pearls looked much rounder and the luster and color looked more poor Chinese Akoya like.

Wow, they have an awful lot of grades for thier pearls don't they?? In the supersize image you can see alot of spotting, not even A- quality in my opinion.

That is quite disturbing knowing how much a strand of simple oval pearls actually cost

I think you are best off in Zhuji

No doubt about it they are freshwater baroques and very cheap ones... (hey, how come my profile pic isn't showing?)

I was told by one of my suppliers in Tahiti tax free would run through 2009

I've been on and off, I have been very busy working just shipped out a 26,000pc Tahitian order to a major account. I am getting ready to go to Japan and China next week...

Last time I went to Japan I had a meeting with somone who sold Fiji pearls. The quality was terrible not quite like what you see in the pictures on the internet. The good quality is very limited and scooped up right away. However I would love to get my hands on a nice lot of Fiji pearls..