Featured Any pearl experts? Two recent finds!

I found this necklace and bracelet recently. I think they are pretty old just based off the clasps. I'd say art deco perhaps?

The necklace I bought for $6.99 The clasp appears to be cheap base metal of some kind. The pearls are beautiful but very dirty. Great looking three strand graduated pearls! I'm thinking 1920s to 40s? Possibly akoya based off the colors. Nice golden hue to them.


This bracelet is lovely I paid $4 for and I quite like it for myself although I am a guy lol. Has a nice opulent looks with a hefty clasp on it made from silver. I am thinking 1920s and akoya as well. Weird there are no knots in between each pearl?

 

They look in really nice condition.
Are you sure they are real pearls rather than good quality glass ones?
Have you got a loupe?
Faux will be very smooth and uniform whereas real will have small imperfections and have a lustre to them. If you rub them against your front teeth real ones will be slightly gritty, whereas faux are completely smooth. Nice clasp on the second one
Some glass ones have knots and some real ones don’t if they have been restrung by an amateur it’s not a reliable test.

 

To my eyes, the necklace is faux pearls, the bracelet is nice cultured salt water pearls!
Nice!

 

Thank you!! Got my loupe out and had a closer look and it appears the necklace is definitely faux and the bracelet is genuine! Odd beacuse the necklace did feel gritty on my tooth but when viewed with a loupe it has no blemishes ans is smooth.

 

Ditto. The pearl on the bracelet clasp doesn't match the other pearls. Maybe the bracelet was strung on a clasp from a broken bracelet or necklace?
No Akoya. Both are pretty though.