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I have a question to the experts in old pearls. My Spanish lady friend has inherited a couple of pearls from her mother-in-law and is trying to estimate what it is and if it has value if they decide to sell it. The family got rich somewhere around 40-50s through a thriving business, there was a...

This is not about high fashion, rather about an unexpected combination of a kasumi pearl with dark gold. I had for a couple of years a necklace from my jeweler Marcel - red gold multiple chain, which he in some mysterious way turned into dark gold, which looks very stylish and delishiously...

Hi everybody, A couple of years ago I started a thread trying to find out the origin of a ring which was sold in an antique shop in Brussels as an old ring (1930-1940) with a biwa pearl - https://www.pearl-guide.com/forum/freshwater-pearls/2031-biwa-pearls-1930-1940s.html I guess the old man...

Here it arrived - my VERY big dark baroque Tahitian pearl. We had to wait for each other almost for two months! The pearl is 24x18 mm (!) , has a fantasy form, very nice colours and good luster. Amazing, but for such a big pearl it has only a couple of minor imperfections. The pendant has a...

The Dutch museum of Natural History in Leiden has in the last two weeks an exhibition of one pearl - one of the largest pearls in the world, Pearl Maxima. This giant is 71 mm high and weighs 119 gramm. It resides already for 140 years in the Netherlands, and was only once demonstrated in public...

These are also Kamoka pearls. And they took my breath away too. I was already for quite a while after Kamoka pearls - Josh knows. But the problem of shipping, plus all the robbery with extra taxes while buying something from outside the EU - all this looked like a real headache. And then Susan...

After three weeks of expectation finally my TPO natural colour akoya necklace arrived yesterday. Unbelievable but two weeks out of three it was stuck in the local customs, half an hour away from me but there was no way to get it out of there. It is really a very pretty necklace, shiny silver...

Anybody knows about the pearl internet shop called Legend Blue? (http://www.legendblue.com/). This was my first purchase ever a couple of years ago, they have a nice website, interesting designs of rings and earings but much less interesting with strands. I wonder why nobody ever mentioned...

My son got married in September. A week before the wedding we spent a couple of hours with my future daughter-in-law to choose a necklace for her wedding outfit. She is not a pearl girl at all - if something, black pearls do matter as somthing trendy, the rest not. We tried all sorts of pendants...

Can anybody explain to me why some Tahitian pearls grow with circles and some not? Why drops are mostly without circles while the circled Tahitians are more symmetrical? In other words, what happens with the mollusk when it creates circles? Sorry if I missed something and such a thread existed...

Hi everyone, I was for quite a long time trying to make a distinction between just baroques, nucleated baroques and fireballs. Now I got - if I understand it right - real fireballs. This is a necklace with 4 rows of light and dark (fireball) FW pearls, about 9mm broad and up to 15mm long. The...

This is one more 'wow'! :D Yesterday I got my long desired lavender necklace (10-11mm, AAA, from Perlenforum, Germany), it is so-o-o elegant - and its colour is really a mystery to me. It changes not only depending upon the light but also very much depending upon the background. Here are some...

Does anybody have an electronic copy of the article about cultured pearl industry in Gem&Gemology 2007, volume 43, issue 3, pp.200-226? We don't have the journal here in the university and to buy a single issue will last a month until it will reach the European shores... Would be extremely...

Hi everybody, This is to share with you my big excitement of yesterday. I was meeting a goldsmith to change the locks on my (still not exactly identified but rather Tahitian) mabes. This is a young man, who graduated in Antwerpen a couple of years ago and now is an independent designer and a...

Hi everybody, I think this is the case when I really need a creative advice. I have already for a while a nice necklace with large button pearls which I bought for their extraordinary orient and very high luster. Pearls are really sizable: 7-8mm wide and 15-16mm long. It is nice to look at...

It stands in all books: pearls should be cleaned in water with mild soap. But what is exactly the mild soap? The liquid soap with ph-5,5 I have in the bathroom is described as mild - but the list of its components on the bottle its quite impressive. Or should it be soap for babies? Or anything...

Hi everybody, In a nervous anticipation of my exotics I came across gorgeous earings which in my understanding should match the big ovals, as well as my already existing long beige-apricot baroque strand from VoP-Munich. The FW pearls in the earings are perfect and very large - 15x12 mm. No...

Hi everybody, In search for an enchancer for my newly produced long grey necklace I came across a brooche with a very big (30 mm) blister pearl. I wonder if these pearls are salt-water or FW ones. Does anybody know from what sort of mollusk or oyster it may come? And a more practical...

Waw! I got my first self-made necklace ready. I got for nothing a very long clumsy line of very small (4-5mm) grey pearls, which was hard as a wire. And 110 inches long. It was either throwing it away, or making DIY job, first time. A weekend of finger practicing but i got it!!! First time, not...

Has anybody been on the pearl exhibition in Paris? http://www2.mnhn.fr/perles/# Is it the same that has been in the New York Museum of Natural History several years ago? Do they have a catalogue and would it be th same as the big one from NY? In other words, is it worth making a big jump there...