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Do you want to make a business from pearls or do you want to become a knowledgeable pearl owner? (and thanks for the recommend Douglas) Either way an aspiration to learn, learn some more and then learn even more is a good thing. With pearls there is always something new to learn and to...

Dyed freshwater stick pearl. I posted a photo of similar from ebay in another thread.

That's why having a glue which you know can be dissolved is a solace when you've made 20pr of earrings and go back later to see one finding has hydrauliced (?) itself out of the pearl

I'm always glad when the pearl itself tells you ' drill here please'

I deliberately did not identify the pearl farm/company at their request. That is a sorted bag of akoya from one of their akoya farms. It's sorted. The photo I posted earlier in this thread showed an unsorted pile of pearls which was a day's harvest from one grafter. I was there and saw it being...

I concur that they are freshwater, if the gold/peach colour is accurate. That is typical of freshwater pearls. But they are little darlings. I'd probably remove the gold beads and the bigger rounds and let them speak out on their own - maybe one long strand which you can wear long or doubled.

But not recently...

The same farm where I took the photo in post 20 which shows circlés, many colours, rosebuds, fireballs.

The farm is owned by a pearl wholesaler which does its own processing.

Dyed. The source is impeccable

Strange, I've never had a problem with any sort of pearl. And I've had pearls sit in the goop for days and even weeks when the finding was an exceptionally good fit so it couldn't seep in easily

PearlescenCe!

I'd completely forgotten I have this one strand in stock. Very definitely akoya as bought direct from the farm 6mm to 10.3mm and it's a long strand too 46cm so won't strangle anyone!

She won't thank you for 'old' Douglas!

The ring shank is It's the ring shank which is engraved, not the pearls. What certification?

The 'cartier' looks really rough, like it was done with one of those hand engraving machines used for dog name tags etc

Could just be unskilled drilling

How do you know they were not drilled with a machine?

D you mean natural as in not fake/manufactured? Because to pearl people natural means wild, unfarmed, no human activity. No pearl with a bead is a natural pearl. Hard to tell from the photos. Those could be low end thin nacre akoyas or shell pearls . Probably the former as there are flaws. Some...

It will probably be the nickel layer in some plating processes which affects your skin. If you select findings made to EU standards (no nickel) you will probably be okay.