Are these South Sea Pearls? 🧐

[Izzie]

I recently bought a strand of supposed south sea pearls at a price that now makes me question if they are really SSP and not FWP. Can someone help me identify this.

 

[Pearl Dreams]

Just repeating what I wrote on the other thread, I've never seen GSS pearls that look like that, so I think they are dyed FWP.

 

[jshepherd]

These are bead-nucleated freshwater pearls. They look to be natural color, but they are not South Sea.

 

[Izzie]

Thank you so much Jeremy for your insight. They are pretty and yes looks natural color to me too, it’s just sad that the seller misrepresented what they are.

 

[Pearl Dreams]

I never would have guessed there were so many naturally colored FWP of that color.
As long as you didn't overpay for FWP, wear and enjoy them!

 

[Izzie]

I never would have guessed there were so many naturally colored FWP of that color.
As long as you didn't overpay for FWP, wear and enjoy them!

Oh my gosh…I will send a photo of my collection of FWP with absolutely gorgeous colors

 

[Izzie]

These are all natural colors of the pearls as I watched them get harvested from the shells/clam. Now, I’ve seen some forums about the fake pearl party where colorful pearls are placed inside the shell and made to seem like they are real but these don’t seem like those. I could share a video of one such clam opening just to get insight if they are fake pearls placed into the clams prior…that is if I’m allowed to share videos here.

 

[Pearl Dreams]

Those are all in the natural color range for FWP.

 

[Izzie]

Yes until recently I didn’t think FWP comes in all these lovely colors naturally except for the white ones..I just love them.