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Hey Dawn, Sorry you are having so much trouble - this is a pain in the &^$%. I agree with what others said...though I have been known to also bend over backwards to accomodate ridiculous requests, so I understand your efforts. I wouldn't offer to do any more than you already have done...

My first order of business in the "my-husband-bought-a-mustang-and-all-I-got-was-this-lousy-car-payment" pearl budget negotation was to get some Cortez pearls. Today I received my meager 3 pearls -- a pair silvery lilac for earrings and one every-colored one for a pendant!!! I have never seen...

I've done more research...and it looks like any color combination is possible with circles. So, thanks for the input. I just never seen brown bands with white before. Lucky me as I have a perfect plan for them. I'm just really careful because I only want to sell awesome pearls -- even if...

Here are some photos...they show the stripes but not perfectly. The nacre thickness looks right upon examination of drill holes, FYI.

Hi. I need an expert opinion here. I got a shipment of mixed quality pearls in yesterday, most of them lovely circle peacocks. About 20 of them are circle baroques that are white/light silver with chocolatey brown rings through the circles. I've never seen any quite like this...

Thanks Dawn, for your great defense of ebay. Over the years I have found *many* great deals on ebay. I bought hundreds of things with a rip-off/dissatisfaction level of about 1%. My worst experience involved a cheap item that never arrived and the seller never responded. I left negative...

Dawn: I noticed you, I think, when I searched Cortez and found 1 or two of your pieces a few months back. I just opened my store on ebay, so not a lot right now as I also have stuff on boutique consignment and gearing up for a few shows. I am working the lower budget angle, and good...

I've seen your listings before! I'll keep my eye out for your stuff. I also sell, but I buy as much as I sell.

Here is a photo of my latest ebay purchase from Care Ehret. She must have recently started up working in sterling silver because there are two pieces there and I just got one! (I've been hoping she'd do something in white gold or silver *forever*.) I'm up to my eyeballs in my own jewelry work...

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This is an AWESOME idea!

I've been trying to figure out that bracelet for weeks now...and it seems like they may be Tahitian Pearls.

The next strand of pearls I buy will definitely be white freshadama. They are stunning!

1. luster 2. color 3. price 4. orient 5. size 6. shape (I love almost all shapes in Tahitian, even quirky ones) 7. roundness (only a factor in freshwater...and then it is higher up)

This is a good thread. I have seen reputable people advertise their pearls as "south sea tahitian pearl"....as though they were somewhat interchangable terms. Its interesting that a GIA instructor indicated this to be true in at least some cases. For me, though, Tahitian is Tahitian and...

I have a light peacock Tahitian pendant that gets worn a lot, or my oval freshwaters strand. I wear a baroque 11mm peacock tahitian bracelet quite a lot.

They also have 7.2mm Tahitians, I see, which gives me pause because you are not supposed to export anything smaller than 8mm, or has that changed?

And an odd mix of Tahitian baroque pearl with a faceted Lapis Lazuli oval. More later.

Here's a cool Tahitian pendant, also 14k. The pearl has some flaws, but the color is extreme blue-green.

Here come some more things, some odd, some classic, that came out recently. Here is a tigereye and drop akoya set w/14k: