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    when did near-round freshwater pearls come into the market?

    I'm sure this is an easy question, but I'm having a hard time trying to figure out when near-round cultured freshwater pearls came to be commonplace. I have Renee Newman's book and she talks about Biwa pearls with a bead nucleus emerging in the 1930s internationally--would these have been...
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    Grandma's keshi rope, but freshwater or Akoya?

    I discovered PG a few weeks ago and have lurking in every corner and soaking up all the amazing information you so generously share. Thank you all! So now I'm bravely making my first post and, like so many previous posters, it's about a strand of pearls inherited from a grandmother. In my...
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