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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 837251, member: 5833"]Always worth checking, but doubt they are real. Looks to me like a length of artificial peals cut to (almost) the right length & glued on. On the best pearl surrounded cameo pieces the pearls are individually set on posts or with prongs. Mid level pieces may have seed pearls strung on wire. I have a cameo backed with MOP that has drill holes that allow the tiniest of seed pearls to be almost sewn on with very fine floss, a cameo example of a more general fashion for MOP & seed pearl jewellery.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 837251, member: 5833"]Always worth checking, but doubt they are real. Looks to me like a length of artificial peals cut to (almost) the right length & glued on. On the best pearl surrounded cameo pieces the pearls are individually set on posts or with prongs. Mid level pieces may have seed pearls strung on wire. I have a cameo backed with MOP that has drill holes that allow the tiniest of seed pearls to be almost sewn on with very fine floss, a cameo example of a more general fashion for MOP & seed pearl jewellery.[/QUOTE]
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