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My first thought after seeing the picture was chinese freshwater. A friend of mine is selling tumbled stones, and sometimes I help him. He has thousands of these button pearls, some are very nice, some has strong overtone, and-or nice shape. There is color variation, luster variation, freshwater...

what canon do you have, my macro lens is for canon mount, if you are interested, I can let it go as I plan to buy new camera, but different mount. send pm if you want. Yes, phones are not cameras, I made picture attempt, using my avatar clasp. Phone is impresionism, camera is hyperrealism

50mm long and 15x13mm pearl. Strong pink overtone on one side and some green-bluish overtone on other.

yeah, I am waiting for house to be sold and upgrade my photography stuff, buying a new Eos R5 and a specific lens, lots of money, but it will be worth the price. I will sell my actual macro lens, very good, but I want to buy something more magnifying, so this one will be sold.

use black wax, or like I made, a silicone piece with a hole, very useful to make candling, you avoid the strong light in the face (and camera and all goes inside the pearl, also, the pearl is held in place, so you can put exactly the way you want.

The necklace and the clasp

It's a weird blister with some hand shaping. I have about hundred of old american freshwater pearls, and handwork was quite common. For the necklace, not easy to be sure from the picture, but description was mentioning "cultured or fine". Some color, luster, and shape variation can be good to...

I found that brooch Lenght is 38mm 23mm american freshwater, blister, some handwork on the beak.

Pearls are small but if price is decent, it's nice item. Not horse enthusiast related item, more a luck charm IMO, like those 4 leaves, or wishbones.

I bought, because description was saying "13mm center pearl" . As 13mm akoyas didn't exist, this may have been natural strand. But if right description would have been made, 7mm center pearl, I would skip it and not buy, because it was meaning early uite baroque akoyas, maybe 20's or 30's This...

Hope it is, I bought it for the clasp, the diamonds seem enormous. I wanted to bid on another strand with a 1cm diamond, but price went too far, especially for cultured pearl strand.

Still interesting to read. I like to wait a bit, browe 40 or 50 "what do I have" threads, and find something interesting, both were in this thread: a clasp, and a small pendant.

I have about 100 of mississippi teneessee pearls. I have severalcut wings, probably used to make flower tie pin or pendant, these were very common in early XX, Tiffany made a crazy brooch, really love that design! My biggest is about 3cm, and another is very heavy. I would be interested in a...

I have one strand, really nice quality, old necklace, about 3-7,5mm strand if I remember.

Hi everyone, I will put all my akoyas in same thread, easier for me to remember what I got or still have. Recently I found this piece, mainly for the clasp, but the 4 strands look not too bad. Still not in hand yet, I hope to see a good jeweller hallmark on it as I have a very nice 50's Cartier...

the ring may be good, probably a natural pearl, long necklace is not bad, if 18K solid gold, has a good style.

-first necklace is recent work, using I think a art deco period clasp, good one, ugly centerpiece, and no idea about the pearls, freshwater would be my best bet, kind of nice colors, but don't like the overal work. -second looks like antique pendant, natural pearls, maybe center is cultured and...

first fake, second chinese freshwater, or can be Biwa, depending on how old is the jewelry.

In the end was not 13mm, only 7mm I shipped back, really disapointed.

Last few years were not as lucky as my first year! Today I won a "cultured or natural pearl necklace, 112 pearls", my guess is natural, hope it is!