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I see you also marked a few pearls with dull spots. Nothing can be done about those spots, and it wasn't anything you did.

Hi Zsofife! You have a strand of baroque freshwater pearls there; they are first harvest pearls. (Keshi are second harvest pearls-- they form when a mussel is put back in the water after the first harvest pearls are removed.) They do not appear to be knotted between the pearls. The rubbing of...

Folks, I'm going to take a little break from Pearl Guide for a while, but I'm okay. I'll be back!

Yeah, I think I've settled on their being baroque akoyas. An unusual necklace, to be sure. :)

I tried to read what the stamp said, and it looked to me like there was an F after 14KG. I didn't /don't see 585-- and you didn't mention it in your first post. We aren't mind readers; it helps if people tell us what they know about a piece before asking us for our opinions ;) . Since it's gold...

I thought that, too, but then I saw what I thought looked like a bead nucleus, and the high luster. But you may be right.

Can you look at this pearl close up-- is there a bead nucleus? I'm leaning toward baroque akoyas.

The clasp appears to be gold filled from the stamp on it. The pearls-- my first impression was imitation. Or maybe just really poor quality, whatever they are. Sorry.

You might have a look at Kari pearls for the quahog and any other natural pearls: https://www.karipearls.com/

I've heard them called druzy or rosebud pearls. They are Chinese freshwater pearls.

I've never heard of dyed freshwaters whose dye was unstable. :eek:

Please note that I edited my first reply as I made a mistake the first time I looked at your photos. On looking again I see that only one of the necklaces is graduated.

Welcome to Pearl Guide! You have 1 graduated knotted strand of vintage akoya pearls with a 10K gold fish hook clasp; the other is not graduated and not knotted, but also has a gold clasp. I think the unknotted strand is also akoya --are they all round? The photo makes some of them look a bit...

These are called tokki pearls. SSEF magazine (Swiss Gemmological Society) used to have a good article on how these form but the article seems to be gone. Two pearls join to form one pearl; the smaller sometimes forms from a bit of broken off mantle tissue that forms a pearl sac and secretes...

I think the OP was wondering where the bit of pearl dust on the black mat came from. Marianne explained that it could be dust from the drill hole, left over after drilling.

The colors of that large baroque are natural colors of Tahitians, not of irradiated fwp.

You may wish to read this detailed and highy informative series on mabe and blister pearls, written by @CortezPearls. It starts here: https://www.pearl-guide.com/threads/i-introduction-to-blister-and-mabe-pearls-ultimate-guide.454956/

You can see what new (not pre-owned) baroque Tahitian pearls are listed for on Etsy. https://www.etsy.com/search?q=baroque+tahitian+pearls Pre-owned pearls typically sell for less. And then there are the fees for listing the item. In the end you might not make very much. I would be inclined to...

The market prefers round pearls-- large round pearls are scarcer, and if it has great color and luster, a large round Tahitian can be quite valuable! Baroque and circled pearls are more common, and thus have a lower market value than rounds. Blemishes reduce value also. So I would say, while it...

1. The flat drilled one is a dyed cultured freshwater "second harvest" pearl. This is how these pearls come to be: The freshwater mussel has a bit of donor mantle tissue implanted in its own mantle, which grows into a pearl sac and secretes nacre, making a pearl. (Usually many such bits of...