Featured Mikimoto Pearls

In re: to pearls unknotted pearls not being real. I bought a long length of good size pearls at a garage sale years ago. The lady was so sweet; but only had a card table of items and a few clothes on a rack. I didn't really want any of it; but she was SO sweet...out in the country and no other lookers...I thought I should buy something. I bought up that strand for $1.50 and they got dumped in a box of "stock" that eventually I'd get researched/priced for my dinky antique booth. MONTHS later I ran into the pearls. They were a pretty cream color, the pearls as big as my thumbnail and I think they were all the same size...unknotted. As I was pricing it; I noticed that it had a large square 14K clasp with a safety catch. Well, ok then, off to the jewelers. Yes, they were real; worth about $150+ IF they had been knotted. Well, shucky darn... I can knot them...and I did... decided I didn't need to sell them after all! I think they may have been restrung also.

Cheerio, Leslie

 

It does happen - that's why you check the "bead" holes for paint chipping. Sometimes you get lucky.