Mississippi river pearls?

[pattye]

Oh, so exciting to see these pearls in your hand! Such interesting shapes and variety of colors. Flat sides on pearls can be created by their position inside the shell as they are formed.

And that amazing clasp, if silver over gold, perhaps will help date the necklace. Mysterious blue gemstone just adds to the intrique!
Wishing I knew more about antique jewelry.

Thank you for mentioning that the Serafil thread from me is working well for you; I'm always happy to hear this! Your gold strand is outstanding!

 

[aerinha]

Oh, so exciting to see these pearls in your hand! Such interesting shapes and variety of colors. Flat sides on pearls can be created by their position inside the shell as they are formed.

And that amazing clasp, if silver over gold, perhaps will help date the necklace. Mysterious blue gemstone just adds to the intrique!
Wishing I knew more about antique jewelry.

Thank you for mentioning that the Beaders Secret thread is working well for you; I'm always happy to hear this! Your gold strand is outstanding!

The cream 40 was perfect in color and thickness. I have a friend with a diamond tester I am hoping to use it on the clasp. If they are diamonds there is a better chance it is gold not gold filled.

 

[BWeaves]

I'm rooting for synthetic sapphire with diamonds and silver over gold in a belle epoque era clasp. How's that for a specific guess?

Love the pearls. True Betty Davis teeth pearls.

 

[aerinha]

The clear stones tested positive as diamonds! The instructions said corundum would slowly climb the tester and give a faint beep but I got nothing on the blue stone so it could be spinel. I was hoping to examine the clasp in sunlight but gray and rainy has been our weather since March here in PA.

 

[aerinha]

I'm rooting for synthetic sapphire with diamonds and silver over gold in a belle epoque era clasp. How's that for a specific guess?

Love the pearls. True Betty Davis teeth pearls.

Very nice guess. They are diamonds

 

[BWeaves]

Congratulations!!!! You got a great find!!!

 

[86Corvettegirl]

That clasp is TDF & a super find by itself!!

 

[Anthera]

That clasp is to die for!

 

[aerinha]

I’d say I need Antiqies Roadshow but you can’t just go, you have to be selected.

 

[aerinha]

I finally have both a day off and sunlight! Geez, I feel like I live in a rain forest these days and not PA. At last some up close pics of the pearls on this strand.

A few are bumpy and brain like


Some seem to have been larger pearls that eiter broke in drilling or at some point during their life and were redrilled for use here like this pearl shown in two angles



This pearl is looks like it cracked open at some point because you can look in and see layers of nacre


This looks like three tiny luminous pearls grew together


A very few are roundish

 

[aerinha]

The clasp really makes me question this strand because some of the pearls seem like scrap that was strung together just to use it and I don’t know why you’d put a diamond milgrain clasp of what looks like high content gold given how yellow it is (plus the diamonds are super clean and glass like) on an odds an ends strand. From a distance you just seeing glowing cream pearls, but up close it is, to quote Clueless, kind of a Monet.

 

[MSC]

It's certainly an interesting strand!