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I fond this picture of Pauline Bonaparte with pearl necklace. one strand only, but 9 drops (eight visible on picture) and this other picture of a same period brooch, we can see the gold or silver mounting on the drop pearls. Both pictures come from a book named "La bijouterie française au...

Here is my stuff for now. I made 2 size for the silicone holders. I think the best would be to machine a mold from a good material, perfect finish and shape, then cast it, and get a silicone casts. For weird pearls like the ones on top or many on bottom, I think some paste or clay can help...

I purchased fom this seller and he is very kind and good guy, I purchased 3 small keshi, affordable, very nice and very serious and pleasant communication. It seems cortez pearl dealers are very good guys!

Hello, During my virtual pearl hunting, or more.. fishing process, I found this lot. It was sold with 2 old broken handles, probably old UK cutlery or stamps. I think the pearls are a old stock or american river pearl, mississipi, or something like this, probably XIX or so. The shapes...

Do you have a more specific idea about period? I was first thinkin 1900-20 but I am more thinking it could be earlier in the end.

So I am offering each one who wants to help to share informations about specific design or periods, lets tell, mostly 1850-1950 This way it could help to recognize a specific design or era, or maybe a wrong seting using innacurate parts. I am thinking about it because it makes several times I...

yes it was my first thought, adding lenght and security by making new knotting, I don't know yet, it can still try to make a knotting, and remove a few of the smallest pearls to keep a quite short lenght. Knotting would indeed add security, much smooter move, and less friction between pearls. I...

It would require quite a fine wire to get a knot between each pearl, because there really are many (151, pearls, 38cm only) I don't know if knotting was always made, I saw several victorian or ealier necklaces with no knot, so I don't know. Sending to a lab is very expensive from what I read, so...

I have this necklace, it's 38,5cm long, and pearls are from about 1,5 mm to 4,5mm The pearls are used and have a barrel shape, there are many of them, no knot between the pearls. When backlighted (candled) it's easy to see they are a bit weathered and some nacre has gone. I had it in a (very...

Yes I wanted to make a video in fact.

Hello, As pearl necklaces fashion and styles changed even for well known jewels (josephine necklace as example), I think there has been a evolution for more common jewellry too, but would get more information about it. Is there a source for fashion evolution from early XIX to end of XX, even...

This is with the new display, I made a silicone cast shape, like a cone with a hole in the middle, black color, it holds the pearl with no gap all around, no glue, fat or sticky material, easy to put pearl and easy to remove and it stays safely on my phone I made two different one with a 5mm or...

I was thinking about a better display in the night I will try to make one today.

Sadly hoster reduces image size to about 740px wide and strongly decreasing quality. Hum, for shooting, I tried with a thick board drilled using a pen and put on my phone. I think the best would be a black thick plastic or strong material with hole, and extra black colored putty, for a bog...

2 first are nonnacrous pearls from trisidos semitorla and probable tridacna or hippopus even sold as something else. the third has been sold to me as a natural basra or venezuela pearl. The black area is probably conchitine from the shell, because bottom is flat with many visible circles...

Here are some candled pearls. natural, keshi and cultured akoya with neat banded nucleus (not visible in daylight)

It seems the design for clasp to be from the 50's period however guilloché is used for a large period, however it can be a bit younger, not sure, best would be to study the style, but it seems already in the 60's the design are closer to mikimoto, oval with cup shape and pearl in middle, or even...

recently there were several conch pearls on ebay, in fact carved from conch shell. IT was quite easy to see because of layers and flame, like cameo, but just a bead.

if you want to spare the clasp, I would be interested in, especially because it's french and I am too!

I remember when I was a child maybe 13 or so, someone was selling shells like this and we bought one. The pearl was a akoya, the seller explained the akoya pearl and it's colors, the overal diameter and maximum diameter and said the pearl value on shell was about the market cost less or more...