Recent content by Lagoon Island Pearls

Either a weak dye with a harsh solvent or perhaps poorly irradiated. Either way it's a bad attempt making bad pearls better resulting worse instead.

I'm seeing two pearl types here. The strand appears made from typical cultural seed pearls. No knots, reasonable matching in size, shape, colour and lustre. The rosettes appear to be different from the strands. Larger sizes with mixed colours, shapes and surfaces. There are flat spots and ridges...

In nature and biology, the structures of pearls are designed to annex hard and soft tissues. It's often said wearing pearls helps maintain their surface quality by reintroducing oils from lipid and subaceous cells. Used sparingly and wiped clean, mineral oil is acceptable as a pearl treatment...

Thank you for the additional views. Xrays are always helpful although the resolution of these are not stellar. Despite that, from what I am able to discern the signature of each pearl in these views are mainly uniform with a scroll-like geometry within. Had these been of natural origin, there...

They are FWP. Blemishes happen in nature but rarely deep. The other marks are very typical of stipple from "gonoducts" which is associated with Order Mytilid (mussels), not Pteriida (pearl oysters). Why? Because pearl oysters don't have gonoducts in the mantle.

We are not paid for our services and are limited by the imagery and provenance provided. We have other lives and I'm not here to jump at the snap of a finger. It's a fake and not an elaborate one at that. Consider yourself lucky you didn't blow someone else's money on your foolishness...

I've had a couple of busy days at the mine. I would like to sleep on these then comment shortly. This one will take some work. Cursory glance. High probability FWP in an fine setting, with a natural impression. Candled views would help, but the piece is not in the OP's possession. They could...

Thank you for the additional array of images. When viewing a strand presenting with natural characteristics, we need to consider some things we don't see as well. Pearl strands are almost never comprised from every pearl in the lot. Instead they are usually selected from a much larger pool...

Not pearls, nor nephrite. These could be lavender jadeite, but seem more gray than purple while the surfaces or luster are not exceptional. As Pattye suggests, chalcedony, onyx or calcite seem probable.

An interesting strand. A cursory glance may suggest natural origin, but any other information is absent thus difficult to say without further investigation. I would like to see the seller's description, price point and other sales. Once arrived, additional photo arrays from different axis and...

Aragonite crystals are orthorhombic, pseudo-hexagonal and tabular. Light passing these prisms at angles greater than 45 degrees will disperse into colour. Being tabular, crystals lay flat with only slight variations in rotation. When viewed at 46.0 degrees, aragonite appears violet, at 46.6...

Pearls can crack from expansion during cooking for two reasons. First, thermal co-efficiency where dissimilar materials expand and contract at different rates, thus causing cracks. The other being gas expansion. Pearls in situ have a slightly higher moisture content than stored pearls and may...

I agree. It's a cut piece which has been resin coated, if not filled. The profile of the outer margin at the outermost sectioned line presents with the transparency and colour of epoxy resin. Using resin to stabilize, coat or fill a piece is not novel. They fashioned something wearable out of...

Saltwater and both are affected because the crystal class/type are the same.