Recent content by A Breaker

Ideas of thoughts on how to keep clasps from flipping "face down" on a single strand? (Besides using a lighter more balanced clasp?) It is heavy enough that it chokes me in back.... and flips if put at the front. (I'll try to get photos soon.) Adding more pearls to reduce choking?

Pearl Dreams has pointed out that the surface of real and fake pearls looks very different. Use you phone or loupe 10X and you will see what looks like spray paint on faux...real show minor blemish variations. The drill holes also show paint build up of loss on faux, while real have layers and...

I will bet that the stone in the white gold clasp is a diamond...may jewelers have diamond testers. The necklace looks recently restrung...but a little too tight. If it is not hanging right and If that is polyester thread (Usually used now) or cotton (matte).... Yours looks polyester to...

Those Faux...would be perfect if you want to try restringing!!! They have bead cups and you knot on the outside of the bead cup..then into the pearl and keep going..finish at the beadcup with a knot. Attach the bead cups to the clasp. Pattye has restringing kits. (You can even switch tthe...

Things happen. In the store...people rearranging things...set a necklace in an empty box temporarily. People forget to minor set aside. Close outs happen. I posted a story of someone buying a MIkimoto necklace in the 50's...but lost the clasp (They had to be kept out of the box) and now the...

I am sorry for your friend...but I agree with the others. Faux. Mikimoto would never do this!

I second Ennui...you can often find faux graduated pearls with a gold clasp. Just look at Solds (on the left side near the bottom) to find out what they actually go for. AND use picclick.com as the search engine. EBay is so frustrating for jewelry...picclick is sooo much easier...it will...

It may be more widespread...but it is Now something EBay is going to fall prey to Lots! EBay believes USPS Tracking and there lies the problem! So sellers who have shipped pearls from China to the US in bulk to sell on eBay...now can ship via USPS using tracking & empty package scam. I don't...

Laughing...I agree with BWeaves. I prefer "Girl Dragon" who wears her pearls to show them off.

Often there is the word "Japan" on the hook. Look at Ebay or Etsy and you will see Mikimoto's M inside a shell on all Mikimoto jewelry. The box is newer than the necklace.

AI and google lens are helpful for some pearl things...it can spot Faux pearls in a photo about 30% of the time. But that means it is wrong 70% of the time. It is hopeless with freshwater vs Saltwater because AI & Google lens use information from dealers, sellers and influencers. Enough of...

Since this seems to be a USPS and a USA problem originally, I will add there is a new scam and it hits EBay in particular. USPS by law...from way back, must use the name and address on the package. Tracking is new and if it comes with an on-line label...eBay or the USPS website... a seller can...

If you even knitted or did any sort of hand sewing or many other hobbies with thread and knots, including fly tieing....It is the same ideas a few tricks, but mostly can be done watching a show that you have seen before, once you start and can remember to stop and move the knot into the correct...

Thank you!

You have great photos!!!! Near the biggest pearl, you can see that there is some paint build up around the "drill" holes. I will bet if you look at the surface with your phone 10X...you will see what looks like spray paint. Often those vintage glass pearls do have really gold clasps and tend...