South Sea earrings?

[Mary-Contrary]

These are 9.2 mm according to my calipers and set in 14k gold. They pass the tooth test. They’re very round! South Sea or are they gold akoyas?

Thank you guys, I appreciate being able to ask stuff like this somewhere without having to drive 2 hours each way to ask the nearest gemologist.

 

[KarinK]

Bumping by this by writing that I am not really sure. I do have some loose SSP in that size and the darker one looks very dark for an Akoya. Anyone else?

 

[Mary-Contrary]

I have a necklace I bought years ago with similar SSP, I’ll post a comparison tomorrow

 

[pattye]

Pretty style! Doesn't look quite like Akoya luster to me, more like South Sea or even freshwater? Do we have any history on these?

 

[Mary-Contrary]

Pretty style! Doesn't look quite like Akoya luster to me, more like South Sea or even freshwater? Do we have any history on these?

Auction for less than the melt of the gold, they didn’t know anything about the pearls. I’ll fess up to habitually buying pearls from questionable sources, I generally buy for melt or less. Since no one outside of the forum seems to know anything about pearls, it’s pretty handy. I’ll find a second and re-photograph these pearls in a bit

 

[Mary-Contrary]

Here they are next to a SSP drop necklace (and I’m 100% certain, it’s one of my few pieces I’ve ever bought new). The earrings are very satin-looking.