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Very interesting.

These are Chinese cultured freshwater pearls.

Seems like those pension amounts should be the other way around. Without farmers, nobody eats...

Maybe this explains why in mixed colored strands of high luster freshwater pearls, the purple ones (my favorite) always appear slightly less lustrous than the other colors.

Oh my goodness, that is gorgeous!

I'm voting for yellow gold with the dermantoid garnets.

I remember that gorgeous GSS pendant, Steve! Your new Kasumi is wonderful too!

Thank you, I will try tomorrow!

If only I could figure out how to attach photos...

The top pearl in the third photo has a dimple consistent with Tahitian pearls.

All that chewing takes a long time, therefore requires more syllables... :)

Love your veggie beads!

I’ve seen this “barrel” shape on akoya pearls at the back of several well worn necklaces when re-knotting for clients. Some have been worn down to the bare nuclei.

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!!

You are in luck. One of our members, Lagoon Island Pearls, is an expert in this area. I'm sure he will give valuable input when he sees your post.

Many sellers on eBay fraudulently mislabel their pearls... and sadly people buy them.

This is a rather common pneumonia in freshwater pearls. Sometimes they can be quite beautiful.

I thought that Hyriopsis cumingii was a freshwater mussel species, not an oyster… Very interesting article. Buyer beware!

It was such an honor to knot up those gorgeous treasured pearls!