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    Vintage Mikimoto real/fake

    Classic FWP finishing that you see being sold in the wholesale trade. They didn't even bother to restring... No knots.
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    hong kong show

    If you ever go to JCK/Tucson, you can visit us. I have those baby fwp you can see. All size from 2mm to 6mm.
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    Increasing the purpleness of beaded freshwater pearls

    Commercial quality in purple may saturate the market. But high quality purple with metallic overtones are very rare in each harvest. I personally believe this market is just getting started. As of right now, these colors below are all natural colors. Getting entire strands in uniform color is...
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    Increasing the purpleness of beaded freshwater pearls

    I don't have exact (or definite) age. But from what I understand, 2+ yr yield better and stronger color.
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    Akoya Pearls 11mm+, featured in GIA Gem's & Gemology article

    Yup, we've been collecting since the pandemic. These are all 10mm+
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    Akoya Pearls 11mm+, featured in GIA Gem's & Gemology article

    https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/summer-2024-gemnews-large-akoya-bead-cultured-pearls
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    Look at these amazing colors from freshwater edison pearls.

    Previous production using younger mollusk have the tendency to fade. This is true.. Also previous productions also have more birthmarks on pearls under the top layer which is very noticeable. Depending on the farm technology, production has gotten real good, but still scarce. Fading also depends...
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    Look at these amazing colors from freshwater edison pearls.

    These are not dyed and 100% natural color. Mollusk that are older (3yrs+) produce stronger nacre and color. I have no idea where your daughter bought her pearls, but if it faded, there are other underlying factors that might have caused it. P.S - Treated color pearls do not fade. The...
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    AGTA News - "Chinese/Baby Akoya" are Actually Nucleated FWPs!

    Update on current quality for small size
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    Look at these amazing colors from freshwater edison pearls.

    Haven't seen high quality Edison Pearls gets posted on here. We would like to share some photos of strands that we came across recently. Colors like this haven't reached the end consumers quite yet, but sooner or later it will be more available as farmers yield bigger harvest. P.s. If mods...
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    Giant Edison Pearls are Here

    I'll try to get some more details from my farmer friend when I get on a call with him.
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    Giant Edison Pearls are Here

    China consumers want certificate for everything they buy.
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    Giant Edison Pearls are Here

    Plastic cards to display a strand like this weighs about 65g, not sure about cardboard, my guess would be 40g. The pearls are so big, they honestly don't look good in person.
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    Giant Edison Pearls are Here

    To my knowledge and what I've seen, there's at least 15kg. Someone in Zhuji offered me a 8kg lot, which price made absolutely no sense. Many of them are sending individual pcs to Guild for lab certs and selling them by the pc.
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    Giant Edison Pearls are Here

    Maybe I should mention, there was a recent harvest last last yr to earlier this year. Production of these are super lightweight compared to traditional bead nucleation. My sources told me that the inside is plastic nucleus (something that farmers were trying, and succeeded). As far as...
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    Giant Edison Pearls are Here

    I recognize the logo.. Will send you a message on fb. Some disclosure needed..
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    Help ID - Golden South Sea?

    Looks odd.. I don't see knots? Also I see some flaking near the holes. And, all the same size?
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    AGTA News - "Chinese/Baby Akoya" are Actually Nucleated FWPs!

    Jeremy, Look at this one... Brand new advertisement on FB. https://fb.watch/sj2OLgsmAs/ ^ I'm sure you can tell which booth this is at GJX. (I've notified our friend already). The videos CTA to this site https://www.pearlsource-us.com/products/aaaa-grade-high-quality-pearl-necklace Note the...
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