I think it's around 150-200 years old

[cenkbaba]

Merhaba arkadaşlar, bu inciler hakkında fikri olan var mı? Annem oldukça yaşlı ve pek bir şey hatırlamıyor. Tek büyük olan yaklaşık 16 mm ve eski kesilmiş elmaslarla çevrili, çift olanın daha büyüğü yaklaşık 10 mm, sanırım ilk eşinin doğum gününde, 1881 civarında bir doğum incisiydi. Kolye hakkında tam bilgiye sahip değilim. 1950'lerde Fransa'dan veya 1969-1980 yılları arasında Chiristie'nin ilk müzayedesinde satın alınmış veya daha eski olabilir. 9,8 mm ile 11 mm arasında elmasları vardı ama annemin eski bakıcısı onları almış (

 

[Pearl Dreams]

Translation from Turkish:

Hi guys, does anyone have any idea about these pearls? My mom is quite old and doesn't remember much. The single big one is about 16mm and surrounded by old cut diamonds, the bigger one of the pair is about 10mm, I think it was a birthstone for her first husband's birthday, around 1881. I don't have exact information about the necklace. It may have been bought in France in the 1950s or at the first auction of Christie's between 1969-1980, or it may be older. It had diamonds between 9.8mm and 11mm, but my mom's old nanny took them (

 

[cenkbaba]

Hi guys, does anyone have any idea about these pearls? My mom is quite old and doesn't remember much. The single big one is about 16mm and surrounded by old cut diamonds, the bigger one of the pair is about 10mm, I think it was a birthstone for her first husband's birthday, around 1881. I don't have exact information about the necklace. It may have been bought in France in the 1950s or at the first auction of Christie's between 1969-1980, or it may be older. It had diamonds between 9.8mm and 11mm, but my mom's old nanny took them (

 

[cenkbaba]

Today I asked a veterinarian friend and I received x-ray images.

 

[CortezPearls]

Hello @cenkbaba and welcome to our forum.
Hard to say with the photos...you should go to a Dentist for better photos. Pearls look amazing under dental X rays.

They are definitively nice looking baroque pearls. The larger and rounder one looks cultured to me, maybe a South Sea pearl.
The x rays display mostly "bands" inside the pearls, so I would say these are cultured...but maybe the x-ray machine displays these bands as a fault....thus, very hard to be conclusive.

 

[cenkbaba]

Hello @cenkbaba and welcome to our forum.
Hard to say with the photos...you should go to a Dentist for better photos. Pearls look amazing under dental X rays.

They are definitively nice looking baroque pearls. The larger and rounder one looks cultured to me, maybe a South Sea pearl.
The x rays display mostly "bands" inside the pearls, so I would say these are cultured...but maybe the x-ray machine displays these bands as a fault....thus, very hard to be conclusive.

What stone could the blue and black necklace be? I x-rayed them to see the difference between the pearls and them.

 

[Pearl Dreams]

Agate is one stone that is striped.

 

[pattye]

It seems to me the bands all run parallel east-west, and are likely a factor of the xray, not representative of what is inside the pearls. Actual striped mop nucleus would present more varied angles. I look forward to finding out more about these pearls.

The interesting brownish beads are possibly a type of jasper, and the bright blue beads, possibly glass, like fine Italian glass.