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Dave, thank you for your specialist opinion, I was sure it was cultured even in an early setting :-) Thank you too for your appreciation of antique jewellery! Pattye, JerseyPearl, GemGeek, our Moms are generous persons! So much beautiful jewels sharing stories with them :-) Thank you Pearl...

Hi JerseyPearl! Thank you for loving it :-) I'm amazed the maker dared to prong set the pearl! My mother passed without telling me how much she paid for it, but I guess it was not a huge price as 10 years after WW2 Japan was poor... You really won't appreciate shopping with me... I'm a tiger on...

Hi, my mother bought it in a second hand jewelry shop during a trip in Japan in the 1950'. No further informations... Gritty to the tooth Perfect egg shape Undrilled Platinum mount with 2 diamonds, wonderfully engraved Size: 12 millimeters high, 8.5 millimeters wide. See pics! I must say I love...

Pattye, CathyKesh and JerseyPearl, thank you!!! I'm glad the pics helped, wasn't sure... I knew I was lucky on this buy and now need another big bottle of Champagne... Dave! I'm so grateful for your study of my candling results :-D THANK YOU! It is a great honor to get your opinion for Mazda...

FrenchPearl, thank you for the wow appreciation :-D I didn't use the "soufflure de perle" to qualify Mazda! Only said hat pins made of soufflures were made, as on link in comment #20 showing them :-) It is a plain baroque pearl. For the weight/size comparaison with La Peregrina (which...

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Thanks Caitlin and Dave ! Candling is exhausting... They seem to me to be beryl translucide, I can't see differences between them, impossible to get focus on such tiny things :-/ Dave, your writing is very interesting, will keep it in doc Base :-)

Hi Dave, here are my pics (very hard to focus...) Thanks all for your comments and interest :-D

This is a beauty! It would make a superb ring :-)

:-) Thank you for the Zoom Zoom, JerseyPearl :-) Amti, many thanks for the welcoming and your warm comment about Mazda!

JerseyPearl, thank you, I totally agree :-D

Pattye, thank you for your interest, I suspected they are natural from the tiny size and shape of them! Chinese fwp seed pearls are bigger and my pearl knowledge is not scientific at all, I usually trust my feeling, deductions and handling experience :-) For now, waiting to have the courage to...

The shop was closed for lunch when I saw it in the window... I came back sooner than a seller who wanted it too :-) When he saw me wearing it (I haunted then all the Paris antique jewellers shops!) he asked for the price I paid and was green of despite ;-) Katbran, as I took Mazda from her...

Yes Dave, I already saw your very nice thread! Thank you for showing it for education :-) The problem I have in my candling tries is getting blind by the bright light through the card hole before placing the pearl on it! I'll try some filter or wear sun glasses, haha!

Caitlin and Dave, thank you for your comment and above all for what to do! The necklace was bought as "vintage pearl necklace", paid around 110$ after a little bidding war :-) I'll get a try to candle them all, Dave! Lisa c, hello! They are very lustrous in any background :-) What an eye you...

Your pearls are glorious! Sautoirs (opera length) are so classy! I love your Christmas necklace too, and the color match with your clothes :-)

Here are the pics :-) Just realise the necklace's display features a clown!

Another great exemple on this PG thread: https://www.pearl-guide.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8434

No Tucs, Mazda is a "solid" pearl, total weight with mount is 15 grams. Soufflures de perle were natural, quite big and generally in the shape of the one in the link below! Still don't know what mollusc produced them...

For BWEAVES who asked, here is Mazda in situation :-D