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Petal keshi. Price depends on size and quality.

Definitely dyed.

Are you sure it is tarnish and not just dirt? Try soaking them in washing up liquid for a bit then some vigorous swishing.

Yellowing- at least pronounced yellowing - usually only happens with imitation pearls. I've seen lots of two thousand or so year old pearls in museums and they are still white.

Glue is useful to stop the end 'walking' itself back out of the pearl which is hiding it, which it can do. The necklace is perfectly secure still but there's a flappy end (and a flappy customer!) It's easy to remove glued thread - just get a drill bit of the correct size of the drilled hole and...

Try simply washing them first, before throwing chemicals.

All prices are potential prices until someone hands over the money.

Way back then a doting father would want to buy his lovely daughter a string of pearls for her 21st.But most could not afford real pearls, so a string of good fakes stepped in. These were such pearls. They were the best he could afford. Honour them as symbols of love in a different era.

It's taken me a bit of burrowing into the archives but here is Josh Humbert of Kamoka pearls making a personal delivery of a strand in front of some s old rocks..and Lordie, my red hair

Maybe deliberate but if so not very well done.

Something off about these - so many frayed ends poking out of the knots

Completely agree. Doesn't apply so much here as the pearl came off the post, but over the years of making up earrings, especially studs, I've found a rogue slightly larger post in a batch of earring findings more often than I care to think about. There's fraction of a mm between nice and snug...

Jeremy is right. Even without the link to look at the pearls, I can tell you that a strand of even pretty bad quality akoya pearls will cost more than that. I also recommend you look at freshwater pearls. Will you also be shopping for a clasp, French wire and thread since you mention you are...

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You are, of course, ahead of the pack Pattye

Probably standard bead nucleated freshwaters.

Some seriously good luster going on there!

Just from that one photo, those look more like freshwater pearls to me.

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