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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clutteredcloset49, post: 12828, member: 85&quot;]LOL - I&#039;m right behind you.</p><p>I was going around the flea markets in the early 70s picking up costume pearls that had the enamel flaking off.&nbsp; I was specifically looking for the French opalescent glass beads that they coated.&nbsp; Mostly found the clambroth glass.&nbsp; Found a couple of coated onyx.&nbsp; Still have those.&nbsp; Also picked up a lot of antique glass beads that I used for stringing, and mixing with the opalescents.</p><p><br /></p><p>One time I put all the costume pearls in an ammonia, detergent soak and left them over night.&nbsp; Came in the next morning to find one strand&nbsp; that just had the string left.&nbsp; Real pearls apparently do not with stand an ammonia bath. </p><p><br /></p><p>I wasn&#039;t trying to be contrary either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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