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Pella...It is those swooping triangles are the same! I am so glad I asked! This has all been such a mystery...lovely pearls....., maybe Mikimoto clasp, but not quite right......Is it fake?.....the pearls are so lovely, usually fake anything is just low quality.....so glad someone posted their...

Before I restring these, I thought these were just normal, but is this a Mikimoto clasp? I think I see the M and then I think I don't. The stamp looks kind of like MK's stamp. It is old Akoyas with really nice nacre and worth saving.

KarinK.... Looking locally seems brilliant! But there are always people getting rid of things, either giving to charities or reselling in every country. I also recently looked up thread options in EU and while hard for me (living in the US) to find...there were options. Mikimoto uses...

BWeaves...love that story & your information! That is really helpful! I doubt I will be that skilled, yet I can see that from when I joined here and knew very little...I still could only tell real from imitation and not without lots of looking & "tooth testing".... to now I can tell imitation...

Polforos... I had a good friend who owned a jewelry store...she said, many people would bring in very worn items for repair....but a few, very few would bring in items that looked "hardly worn" they said that they wore them every day and want to sell them for something different. She said it...

That is so very interesting!!! I love the 12 ways jewelry kit... back in the day... so much fun...my grandmother talked about the Coro Duo brooches...but that takes it to a whole different level!!

Others know better than I, but it looks like a freshwater "button" pearl. I love the color combo & design! Than one, either the tooth test or against another known real pearl. If you start buying thrift store gold or silver... there are fake marks...especially 925... so you want to get a...

Polforos... There are quite a few places that encourage people to save on clasps & spend more on the pearls. While I think that might be great for Grey pearls.... (Silver with Rodium is very hard to tell from white gold, unless it is marked) I find the silver on the Golden SS a little...

Freshpeachez... with Thrift store pearls... It helps a lot to know both clasp & pearl culturing. For instance, the graduated strand were a post WWII thing often sold to military stationed or going to Asia (I assume that the Korean & Vietnam War were big drivers of that...so 50's-60's) ..Most...

I have several of these in woven pearls bracelets, even as a necklace. I think these are stunning and so much work. If you can get some small roundish pearls and vintage Rice pearls...you could make a very similar pattern.

Such a fun mystery! Excited for an answer!

Thanks... I understand more now. Thanks again!

Just up the road near Tacoma after traveling the country with my sweet man. Loved taking my Grandmother to WS Nordstroms and window shopping...she went to the fashion..as she wanted more bling. She bought some rice pearls in the late 80's, but only because they were 12 stand.

Well that is one take on pearl tariffs. I normally participate in another sector of the economy that has current tariff issues and was surprised at pearl tariffs. Bet the case could be made for nacre.

TheTanfieldKid I was in a jewelry forum & a jeweler's heir was discussing her brother's addiction & stealing metal stamps to sell fakes for $. Her father had to replace them & it lead to a very interesting discussion on marks & metal stamps & accuracy. Followed by lots of stories of fakes...some...