not Keshi

Cees

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Saw yesterday South Sea pearls from Manado, Sulawesi, Indonesia and thought they were keshi.
The farmer, however, pointed out that these were pearls with a small fresh water pearl as a nuclei.

So the pearls got a new name, Orient Pearls.

The price per momme is considerably lower than keshi pearls

Cees

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Ooh, Cees, you always amaze and delight me! Those are so cute, especially the golden ones :)
 
In the photo of the white pearls, look at the one on the far right, with the tiny blue bump! Wendy, Pearlescence, didn't you have a pearl like that recently?
 
Hi Cathy, yes I did. I don't know if blue noses are a sign of these pearls -in which case I had them without even knowing it (although I don't think so as that pearl was in a huge lot of all sorts of odd pearls which Betty Sue and I spent happy hours trawling through to find maybe a dozen) or if sometimes white pearls have blue noses. Or patches.
 
Maybe not, Wendy ... but the resemblance is funny :) I think? your pearl was bigger, maybe?
 
What is the size of the golden ones, Cees? Duh I'd like to have a pair for earrings.
 
Think this forum is not really a place to market pearls hahaha
 
As promised last week, the pearls suitable to make pairs.

The South Sea 12.35 mm white/pink drop pearls are the best combo I saw for a very long time, took those along aswell, but that is a different story.
 

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