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Jeremy you are a star! Thank you so much for finding the videos of natural and non nucleated freshwater pearls,much appreciated.I bought the necklace from a lady in Tennessee,who sold them as antique/vintage freshwater pearls.There are 3 different types of Pearl on the strand,and they correspond...

Thank you for your opinions! Out of curiosity,can you tell me how one can distinguish between a natural non nucleated freshwater Pearl and a non beaded freshwater Pearl.? Iv googled but only found differences between freshwater and salt water nuclear ion.

I’m posting some images of a sample 3 pearls from a long necklace I have.There are candled pics and exrays ,Thanks for your help..

Ditto to Douglas and MOPT .Thank you Jeremy.Who ever thought pearls are dull should change their mind after following this thread,half rollercoaster and half forensic thriller.Iv decide to knight Dave,so from now on he is Sir Dave,for services to pearl education! A last PS on the pearls,I sent...

Thank you so much for taking the time to look at the exray and give your findings.How we’re such small pearls seeded? Would they have hope that the pearls would get bigger,and these were the runts of the litter?

I wanted to make my” best” pearls feel at home,so got 3 old Chinese jewellry cabinets to keep them in.

Oh boy! Thank you Douglas,for your opinion,it will be interesting to see what other opinions surface,but already I like yours best.

Well,here I am again,after the trip to the dentist,first time I haven’t spent 10 minutes flossing before a visit!.Here is the exray of a group of the pearls,plus an image of the same pearls.The biggest pearl in the group is 3 mm long,how would tiny pearls that size be seeded to start them off?(...

Well,here goes with the frustratingly bad news….Old lady and daughter searched every nook and cranny…then the ancient worthy remembers that possibly a few years ago she took some jewellry she no longer wore to the local charity shop…cannt quite remember,but pearls came into it somehow.So...

Yet another P.S.The dentist has come up trumps!( not the ex presidential kind..)she’s happy to take my pearls as a private patient,but as they don’t have tooth ache they are categorised as non urgent,and will have to wait till the end of May.Old lady back home to Yorkshire,so am waiting to hear...

If anyone out there is still awake at the end of this thread( dentist was no help,will try and find another one) I have a a weird P.S. A friend visited me yesterday with her 94 year old mother,and I was telling them about all your comments.Suddenly old lady says “ I have some Scottish river...

Douglas,thankyou for another thread to the weave of this story.Iv had no reply to my request for an exray for my pearls.Possibly my dentist is not that friendly after all….

Dreadfully sorry to disappoint, but no Scottish accent,but lots of Scottish vocabulary.So many dialect words are an echo of ancient Celtic,with,believe it or not,some nouns from Persia.There now,a potted language lesson on the pearl forum.We live a short walk from the North Sea,,looking onto the...

I can’t call you Dave,it’s like calling your brain surgeon Kev…I can’t think there’s anyone who’s followed this post who hasn’t learned something new.It’s been a great learning curve.I will hopefully past the X-ray images when I get them,for us all to see what Dave was describing.but thanks to...

Thanks for the clarification.Iv spent an interesting hour with Kunz,but could only discover accounts of saltwater pearl harvests,nothing about freshwater pearls in India .If Dave sees this ,can he give an educated guess if the pearls would have come from elsewhere and been distributed from...

Thank you so much Dave for your insights.For the satisfaction of the folks at Cairncross I will get a dental exraybut will now have to do some home work on pearl production at the time of the British Raj.Please can you tell me when you use the word “ cultural” in reference to pearls,does it have...

Thank you Douglas,the problem I had was the light.specifically too much of it! I got the pearls over the aperture,and I could see perfectly inside with the naked eye( well,let’s be honest here,reading glasses were involved…) But when I tried to capture the image on my iPad I just got blinding...

Dear lagoon Island Dave,you must think me a numpty,saying blithely that I had candled the pearls and they were natural.Iv looked so often at your amazing images,and had a simplistic idea that if every pearl looked different under magnification,that would imply they were naturals,but I realise...

Thanks so much for your input,I will try and candle them and photo them tomorrow.Iv had the pearls for 30 years,and the lady I got them from was an acquaintance,not that make any difference to the pearls authenticity!….

Oh Douglas,you forgot to add “ moans” to your scones and drones,which fitted my last post ( Hope not in reality) perfectly. Well,I decided to email the Cairncross jewellers,and you must be a legend in your own lunchtime!( sorry,life time,dratted spellchecker) I presumed on our email acquaintance...