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Small farms are able to buy shells already nucleated.

There is certainly a market...during covid we were buying direct, either from farms, or some producers started selling online by web page or by online auction. The most important thing with selling online is your reputation. You must be honest and straightforward with your customers.

Pearls are always worth what someone else will pay for them. Some farms sell direct to makers or retailers or to end users. You'd have to spend some time setting up a website and sorting out taking money and shipping stuff. It depends how independent you want to be

Jeremy...remember when you spotted the usually good vendor who had three duff pearls at each end of nearly every strand..just where you hold the strand to roll it. I've never forgotten that lesson!

Skin colour and tone might be the problem. perhaps wait till you have a tan,( or don't have a tan)

It seems an odd subject to pick for a dissertation. Too narrow. Unless she is planning to be a pearl influencer...?

Just to clarify, there are people contacting me all the time asking for free pearls because they are 'influencers'. Up to the stylist for the wife (or maybe now ex-wife of a very famous actor who wanted to wear them to some awards thing. But would not agree to a loan, or hire, with them paying...

Some of us are in the UK. But I do not have anything to do with influencers. Complete waste of time and money.

Hi Jeremy, you don't need a broker if you can do the paperwork yourself. Customs don't like it as it makes work for them but I had it down to 15 minutes at the airport. Before brexit. Now it is a complete mess here in the UK. While you don't have to pay duty there will probably be purchase tax...

As someone who might be doling out pearls to 'influencers' I wouldn't waste a strand of 5mm dyed potatoes on one of them

Perhaps you should find out a little more about your new venture - the materials and the logistics - before spending any money. Trading in pearls is really not the get rich quick sector you seem to think it is. As I frequently observe...buying pearls is really easy. But then you have to sell them.

Err, no I'm not. I have a large wholesale business. (I'd like to think you missed a 'not' out of your final sentence Douglas!)

Hi. I'm a pearl seller in Lancashire and a former (retired) academic (teaching law). What can I do to help and I would love to see the dissertation when finished. Email me at wendy@pearlescence.co.uk

Edison pearls are sometimes dyed. And sometimes they aren't. There are threads discussing this. I suggest you read the report by the GIA into their colour treatments.

I have some very similar white south sea keishi. I bought a big lot a couple of years ago and have been making pairs ever since!

It might give a clue.Or might not! In any case the law on wild UK pearls is incredibly strict and strong. There's only one shop in scotland licenced to sell them, it is forbidden in any way to interfere with margaritifera in the wild in any river,or even where there might be some: or even...

They also look like a strand made up of really bad cultured freshwater pearls. Years ago I asked one of my suppliers to get for me a sample kilo of pearls straight from a farm. They showed me this - mostly pretty bad, a couple were grade A at best and these were the worst of the very poor

Not a hallmark. (see https://www.assayofficelondon.co.uk/hallmarking/what-is-a-hallmark) May be some sort of brand logo.

Yes, the backs can be filed down to make for a better fit to the cup and your ear. Suggest you find a pair of cups which are not too heavy. Thinking about the stock I hold, the silver are quite heavy with substantial metal thickness in the cup. You might need to go for gold - which will always...

I've seen dyed akoya which are a uniform black. Real ink black. Funnily enough black dyed Akoya are not much around these days.