Back in 1980's I inherited this piece from my grandmother. I am not sure how old these pearls are, and I think she brought them somewhere from Middle East. They need to be restrung, but I am interested in identifying them and possibly finding out the value. Some of the pieces are extremely small, and in the pictures they look bigger.
My grandma's pearls
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These are interesting strands, if you can call them that. More like temporary stringing on monofilament.
Size graduation is typical. Individually drilled, mostly on the Z axis with some exceptions. The color is balanced, mainly butter white with some red shift (likely ambient source). Highly translucent showing non-uniform nuclear views. Some flat spots or concave development from close proximity to other pearls.
We are reluctant to discuss value, because it's subjective and variable. However, your lot has >50% likelihood of natural origin, thus I suggest lab analysis, at the very least.
Pretty pearls. Thank you for sharing them with us.
Size graduation is typical. Individually drilled, mostly on the Z axis with some exceptions. The color is balanced, mainly butter white with some red shift (likely ambient source). Highly translucent showing non-uniform nuclear views. Some flat spots or concave development from close proximity to other pearls.
We are reluctant to discuss value, because it's subjective and variable. However, your lot has >50% likelihood of natural origin, thus I suggest lab analysis, at the very least.
Pretty pearls. Thank you for sharing them with us.
Neki...you can get pearl stringing kits (Etsy USA & other countries) and restring with a better clasp to wear them until you can get analysis. That clasp is just a base metal....which makes me think they might also be chinese freshwater when they were first trying to get a more rounded shape. (I have a couple of strand of those.). But that clasp might have been the temporary thing lagoon pearls was talking about and on the buyer to get them restrung with the quality they deserved?
