is this turquoise necklace real? info needed, thanks!

Howdy! This necklace is 16" and each large bead is approx. 1". The clasp says 325. Can anyone confirm if this is real turquoise (it looks and feels like it, i.e. not resin or glass), and what it might be worth (retail)? Does it have a specific name? Someone offered to buy it but I honestly don't know what it's worth.

It's not strung (or re-strung) very well, that much I can tell.

Thanks in advance!

 

Also adding that it weighs 70 grams (350 carats) - i.e. each stone weighs close to 22 carats.

 

looks like Turq..of some sort.
r u sure 325.....is not 925 ( sterling)

 

Here's a photo of what looks to me like 325. I suppose it could be 925 but it's an odd shape if so.

clasp by hokeypix posted Oct 20, 2018 at 7:31 PM

 

And here are a bunch of close-ups of some of the drilled holes. For the most part they seem blue, and they follow the brown vein from the outside of the stone. One of them looks more like a rough rock, but that bead has quite a bit of roughness on it. That's the only one that looks like that on the inside. I hope these are helpful in terms of determining if this turquoise or dyed.

turquoise CU by hokeypix posted Oct 20, 2018 at 7:34 PM

turquoise CU by hokeypix posted Oct 20, 2018 at 7:34 PM

turquoise CU by hokeypix posted Oct 20, 2018 at 7:33 PM

turquoise CU by hokeypix posted Oct 20, 2018 at 7:33 PM

turquoise CU by hokeypix posted Oct 20, 2018 at 7:32 PM

turquoise CU by hokeypix posted Oct 20, 2018 at 7:32 PM

 

If you were clever & making faux turquoise beads, maybe you would drill first & dye after?

 

The stones look like they maybe some type of Chinese pressed block mystery material.

 

They look wrong to me too, in some indefinable way. Do some of them really have the lavender cast of the top bead of these two?

 

No, they're more green. These were just quick shots w/ phone and desk lamp. I'm thinking they might be Chinese turquoise? The matrix on these is very textured in parts (as one can see) and not just lines. I'm still confused about the 325 clasp! (Though these beads could have easily have been strung/clasp added later).

 

It might be good if you could add a couple of pix taken in daylight. Knowing the true color is something needed for a better assessment. Then there's the one bead that's the right size & shape but very different formation:



It looks like someone made the necklace by restringing a strand of beads just as they came from the bead seller & tied on the clasp ends. It was predictable the ragged bead holes would fray that cord. Someone's homemade production.

 

Flip that 325 upside down and it's 925; I've seen it before. The stones... some kind of reconstituted turquoise, magnesite etc. Those brown veins generally mean magnesite.

 

It's hard to tell, but could the clasp say "825"?

 

I agree, dyed something, probably magnesite, or even a mix of magnesite and howlite beads. The 325 is 925. I love the hook clasp.