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Pictures first! These pearls were given to my mother in the 1930's by her grandfather, and have been in the family ever since. They have been GIA certified as follows: Quantity: 49 Weight: 24.50 grams (gross) Measurements: Graduated from 11.45 x 7.45 to 5.90 x 5.40 x 3.80mm Drilling: Drilled...

GIA Report GIA Report Hi Caitlin-- Thanks for responding and for emailing me. Here's the GIA data: Baroque Freshwater Natural Pearls, no indication of treatment, Unionidae Mollusk, 49 pearls, 24.50 grams gross, graduated from 11.45 x 9.72 to 5.90 x 5.40 x 3.80 mm, drilled, variously...

These pearls of mine are now for sale. I don't have time, sadly, to wait for an auction house to handle them for me. I have the IGA certification now, and am looking for a buyer. If anyone can point me in the direction of someone who might be interested, I would be very grateful. Thank you...

P.S. What auction houses do you folks especially recommend for pearls like the ones I have? Obviously, I'm unfamiliar with all of this.

Thank you Thank you Thank you, Panda, for that tip. But I would really like to know the value of them before I send them out for sale, so that I will know what the value should be in my mind. (Seems like an auction house could assign any value they want to? Maybe I'm wrong about that.) So...

Hi again folks-- Well, it's taken a long time, but I finally got my mother's pearls sent off to GIA, and...good news!...they are INDEED real! So now I need to find someone excellent to appraise them for me. I live in the Tucson area--anyone know of anyone around here? Or a great place to...

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Hi again everyone-- Thank you so much for all of your helpful information and ideas. I really have appreciated your sage input, since I know relatively little about old pearls. A question now, though--I wrote to Sharon about two weeks ago, attached a few photos, and asked her if she would do...

Hi Richipat (and everyone else)-- Actually, the clasp has ten small diamonds in it--five on each side. I can't find a mark on the clasp right now--will have to use a magnifier tomorrow. I'm certain it's either white gold or platinum, but am not sure which. (I'm a jeweler myself, by the way...

Hi all you kind folks-- Thank you so much for your input and sympathetic thoughts. Yes, it is sad but true-- I AM down to selling the very last things I own that have any value, just to be able to buy people food, dog food, gas and dish soap--in other words, just to survive on the physical...

Hi folks-- This is my first post in this forum, as the only pearls I own are the ones I'm inquiring about. I'm going to attempt to post some pictures of them along with this post, though I just tried to do that and your system logged me out and I lost everything I had written! So here goes...