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Looks like a rock to me. :oops:

We personally have not seen the issue.

Rows and rows of natural color pearls.. The Chinese freshwater pearl industry has made significant advancements in recent years. With strategic marketing, we believe these unique colors will become instantly recognizable as freshwater pearls, similar to how Tahitian pearls are renowned for...

Best to consider this as a characteristic that is shown in Edisons. Also easier for consumers to distinguish FWP Edison and a SSP (since fwp sizes are now in 14-16, 16-18, and 18-20mm ranges).

Treating the color of the pearls does not remove these blemishes. You'll still see these marks regardless. I'd say these marks are very common since 80% of the edisons are commercial or lower in quality. And producers normally use mid to lower quality to treat into different colors.

Those are what we called birthmarks. It's not above the surface, but underneath the surface. Not something you can buff out or fix. We categorize these is commercial grade pearls.

I know who this belongs to.. HAHA

Since when was a Etsy retailer considered wholesalers?

Yup, specifically credit to Jeremy for the name... These are Bead Nucleated FWP, aka Edison (which also is widely used and should have been trademarked).

Just got pictures from a farm. Bead nucleated FWP. They seemed to have achieve maximum luster in this newest harvest. Still small production for top quality rounds though. "Freshadama" term should be credited to PP (Jeremy).

Those screenshot photos in the original post don't seem to be legit natural purples. Seems to be treated Edisons. Or, it could be heavily edited video with filters over them. As for fading, natural colors fade but depends on harvest. Many of the mussels used are too young, and the younger the...

Why are the drilled holes bigger than the knots? Odd..

Classic FWP finishing that you see being sold in the wholesale trade. They didn't even bother to restring... No knots.

If you ever go to JCK/Tucson, you can visit us. I have those baby fwp you can see. All size from 2mm to 6mm.

Commercial quality in purple may saturate the market. But high quality purple with metallic overtones are very rare in each harvest. I personally believe this market is just getting started. As of right now, these colors below are all natural colors. Getting entire strands in uniform color is...

I don't have exact (or definite) age. But from what I understand, 2+ yr yield better and stronger color.

I'll share some photos here..

Yup, we've been collecting since the pandemic. These are all 10mm+

https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/summer-2024-gemnews-large-akoya-bead-cultured-pearls