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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 640752, member: 36"]Nice pile of pearls! I'd be betting on freshwaters, but the only real way to know for sure what you've got is an x-ray. If those darned things are natural (nacre all the way to the core, i.e. a grain of sand) .... yipe. Cultured pearls are a coating of nacre over a bead of some sort, often shell. Chinese cultured freshwater pearls are all over the place now, but a rope that size even of those would command a good price.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 640752, member: 36"]Nice pile of pearls! I'd be betting on freshwaters, but the only real way to know for sure what you've got is an x-ray. If those darned things are natural (nacre all the way to the core, i.e. a grain of sand) .... yipe. Cultured pearls are a coating of nacre over a bead of some sort, often shell. Chinese cultured freshwater pearls are all over the place now, but a rope that size even of those would command a good price.[/QUOTE]
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