Please tell me these are Akoya 🫣

[Izzie]

I bought this 2 years ago as just a pearl necklace and I put them away. But since joining this amazing forum I’ve been digging out all the pearls I’ve collected and trying to figure out if they are just Chinese fresh water pearls or something more special.
This one looks to me like Vintage Akoya because the mark on the clasps says silver which is the Japanese way of marking sterling silver and the baby pearl on the clasp kind of indicates to me that it might just be Akoya. Is it?

 

[Pearl Dreams]

I think they look like freshwaters.

 

[Perle magnifique]

Я думаю, они похожи на пресноводных.

Я согласен с вами

 

[Izzie]

Just out of curiousity and to also gain more knowledge on identifying these pearls, why do you think it’s freshwater and not Akoya?

 

[Pearl Dreams]

Я согласен с вами

Using Google to translate from Russian, this reads:

"I agree with you".

Just out of curiousity and to also gain more knowledge on identifying these pearls, why do you think it’s freshwater and not Akoya?

The surface characteristics, the shape, the color, even the way it's connected to the clasp.
Basically it's experience, from seeing a lot of pearls.

 

[Pearl Dreams]

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