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Hi Alum Creek3 and welcome to the forum! When it comes to buying South Sea Pearls you should have a native with you who knows a lot about pearls. I hade the luck that one of our PGuiders lives there (Perlas) and through her I got my GSS and some lovely Freshwater pearl strands. Price for FWPS...

Golden Akoyas Golden Akoyas They are lovely, the only thing that would keep me from buying is that the price will be rather high, if they have the same quality as Hanadamas. What sizes would be available and of course - what would be the price for 8,5 - 9 mm?

Johanna, you are so right. Tell me, do you really need to clean the pearls that often? I just wipe them down with a moist cloth, dry them and do nothing more. Of course, I have re-stringed many of my larger pearls and as I use Power Pro, the problem with stretching has literally disappeared...

Hi Nerida, thanks for reminding me of it, I had it on my wishlist for a long time and eventually I forgot about it but now I will try to get it to make my "pearl library" more complete!

On the subject of old pearl diving I can recommend a book, you could try via Amazon.com or maybe Biblio.com. The title: Sons of Sinbad the great tradition of Arab Seamanship in the Indian Ocean) Author: Allan Villiers Publisher: Charles Scribner?s Sons, New York My edition is from 1960...

The whole necklace is breathtakingly beautiful! I can?t remember having seen a whole necklace of Pinctada Radiata. They seem to have a beautiful luster as has the pendant!

They ought to be, coming from this time. Beautiful. Thanks for posting!

That sounds definitely as if you have found yourself a blister pearl!

Thanks for the explanations, Jeremy. Still it would be very interesting to get information on whether there might be a connection to the breeding grounds, food, minerals or whatever that could influence the mussels to produce such lovely pearl colours! For me I like to compare them to the...

Blair, that sounds as if it was Vigor Super Glue you are talking about. I glued many pearls to the posts and so far only one has come off. But it is really dangerous and messy if you get it on the pearls.:mad::mad::eek:

Lionlaw, very sorry to see the pearls you saw and the ones you got! Really, their (Chinese sellers) vocabular needs some explaining! If you really want ROUND pearls, don?t shop in China! If you want some that we would call near round, they would call it at least AAAA+! As for size we all have...

Half drilled pearls Half drilled pearls More suppliers of earring findings are: Firemountain.com (silver mostly), you could ask for their catalogue. It?s free, also Rio has it. Rio Grande.com (gold) Bella findings.com (gold, silver) The findings can also bed called studs, postings, nuts (the...

They are simply beautiful. Is it my screen that shows an oval shape or are these oval, Jeremy? I hope you have several of this darker shade, round if possible! How far have you come with the "putting together" the strands?

Hello Yvonne, Caitlin might know...

Lovely designs, as usual, Pattye!

Well, I do agree. She is a good looking lady, who could look even better if she had an honest adviser (like you). Why not write to her stuff? Great idea, if indeed they are trying to find out what the public thinks.

Try Bella Findings.com or Riogrande.com.

Hi all, I was born in the Chinese year of the Tiger - but I think Tigers too love beautiful things- and one of the most beautiful things I know are PEARLS!

And the exotics have the metallic luster like Akoyas, which otherwise is rarely the case. Freshwater pearls have a more soft luster compared to Akoyas and the Exotics rival the Akoyas in that aspect as well as they can have a lot of amazing colours, which are not common in Akoyas.

Beautiful, Cathy. Thanks for posting the pics. A pity you can?t be here and give me a lesson in the art of posting pictures....