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Immediate impression, confirmed on closer inspection: dyed freshwater pearls. The appearance of the blemishes, the general appearance of the luster and surface, and a bit of oil-slick color all point to fwp.

Some terminology may help you. Real pearls are either cultured (farmed pearls) or natural (wild pearls, rare and very expensive, created in nature by mollusks without any human intervention.) The pearl market has been a cultured pearl market for the past century. Imitation (fake) pearls are...

Yours are cultured akoya pearls. (Cultured pearls are real pearls.) The ones on the right...I'm inclined to think they are cultured Chinese freshwater pearls, based on shapes. Would that be a deal breaker, if they were not Japanese akoyas?

They appear to be dyed freshwater pearls from China.

That is a graduated vintage akoya strand made by Mikimoto. These strands sell well on eBay. Do a search to see what strands with that clasp (or another silver clasp, with the Mikimoto mark) sold for recently. That should give you an idea of how to price it.

It has a lot of surface flaws that interfere somewhat with luster. A round SSP necklace of this size would cost a lot more if better quality. I think you realize this. Reading between the lines, you don't love the quality-- am I right? If so, $3000 is too much for a necklace one doesn't love...

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...