Just before I go to bed, I've weighed each necklace.
17 inch weighs 56.4 grams.
19 inch weighs 60.4 grams.
21 inch weighs 75.9 grams.
Boo and Knotty, thank you for your comments.
All the credit must go to Mia and Elia at P.P. though.
And this forum, as I would never have known how beautiful freshwater pearls are, and still be stuck on my akoyas, if I hadn't stumbled across this site.
Knotty - there are one or two less lustrous sides to a couple of the pearls, but these are on the shortest edges, not the fronts or backs of the pearls, if you get what I mean. And I stress only one or two. Considering these are untreated, well, who would have thought it ? And for the price, I think overall they are a great buy.
Even after I paid the import taxes ....
Over here, costume jewelry can cost three times the price of these pearls for rhodium plated base metal and glass. More in a certain "top peoples store" in London.
And both Mia and Elia implied that they enjoyed searching the strands and making the choices.
Although they may well have been being polite, I hope that they did, indeed, enjoy the challenge.
Now I really must go.
Thanks again everyone for your kind comments.