Finding Tahitian pearl drop pairs

[Cees]

One can go through bags with thousands of pearls to find just a few matching pearls.
Here some nice pairs

 

[pearlescence]

I enjoy matching pairs.
Do you find you can do it for a time then suddenly your concentration and ability just goes?
Not helped if there's also jet.lag,which seems totally unpredictable. I had one terrible Hong Kong trip where i could only do about an hour at a time before the cartoon whirly whirly eyes started.

 

[BWeaves]

I'd never realized it was that hard, but now I know more, it makes sense.

 

[CathyKeshi]

Lovely matches Cees ... I can only imagine how difficult it must be, especially with jet lag!

 

[JerseyPearl]

Cees, I would love to be a fly on the wall watching you pick out pearls...you have an amazing eye. Personally, I can get lost for hours sorting through pearls. Sometimes, though, the matches just seem to find one another...kind of like kindred spirits.

 

[Cees]

There is slowly a problem arising, many wholesalers found out that if they match on forehand they can ask a lot more for their pearls.
That is especially happening with big Tahitian drops of 15 mm up. A famous wholesaler told me that those go easy at private sales prior to a Fair.
I can do it for an hour or 2 and then go look at other pearls and then do it again. But just 7 pairs is a meager result.

 

[Lady_Disdain]

From an efficiency point of view, matching beforehand makes a lot of sense. It is the kind of thing better done by someone well rested and not jet lagged, instead of done over and over in 1 hour stints by a lot of different people.

 

[pearlescence]

I think I once spent an hour looking for pairs in one size and shape of black round. They were all metallic and great colours but could I find matches...pffffff?

 

[JerseyPearl]

Harsh lighting probably doesn't help the eyes! Maybe wearing sunglasses might help on the eye strain?

 

[pearlescence]

Sunglasses would be a disaster - you would not be able to see the subtles of shade, overtone or lustre. Matching whites for eg would be impossible to do properly.
It's the concentration. I find I can keep going for several hours usually, then boof, in seconds that's it for the day

 

[Katbran]

Cees- lovely pearls as always ! Interesting about the larger pearls being matched up . Seems like bigger pearls and gems are in demand these days.

I've never done much matching as I was mainly buying strands but on my last trip I decided I needed a few pair . Took forever ...trolling through volumes of Tahitian pearls trying to match colour . You think you have a perfect match ..then in another light ...or they roll around and ..no they don't match. . Arrrrrrgh!

 

[SunSeeker]

I think matching pearls is the kind of activity best I could spend hours enjoying, with good lighting and good music required!

 

[JerseyPearl]

And usually a glass of wine....

 

[SunSeeker]

haha JP, I was thinking the same thing too after I posted!

 

[Cees]

To find one like this 16.68x 26.39 mm is still not possible.

 

[Marianne]

Nice pendant

 

[Katbran]

lol No I would think if you are trying to find a pearl to pair up with that pearl it would be very very very difficult !! It's a gorgeous pearl tho...photo is a bit blurry but it certainly looks lovely !!

 

[Camelotshadow]

Might be better from paired from start for mostof us as chance of colors macthing are greater & you just have to have a huge selection of pearls to match them up especially if they are not rounds.

That big one is nice on its own as a pendant. Would be killer ear pendants though...