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I think they just wrote the date European style, i.e. day of the month, month, year and ignored the Japanese kanji. Since my parents were Westerners, they did it that way. Their visit was on October 24, 1966. They were in Japan for a medical meeting and my father kept detailed trip diaries, so I...

Yes. It is a mystery to me what happened to the brooch. I do have two pairs of earrings, one with white pearls and one with black and white that match this necklace. (There originally was a black pair as well, but one is missing.)I'm currently having them switched to pierced backings so that I...

Thank you for your response. I'm not sure if this helps clarify anything, but here are some more photos. In fact, you may be right that this strand was put into a Mikimoto case because I've just found the receipt from the Mikimoto purchase. It's all a bit of a mystery, but they were in Japan in...

I'm told that these pearls were purchased in Tokyo in the late 1966s and are Mikimoto. I searched but can't find a clasp quite like this. It says sterling on the side. I also have not seen this combination of white and black as a double strand. Any help much appreciated. Thank you.