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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 433949, member: 5833&quot;]These are not pearls.&nbsp; They are spherical beads cut out of the nacreous wall of a thick shell, where the mollusk laid the nacre down layer by layer.&nbsp; Pearls have concentric layers only because the nacre layers were laid down around all sides of a nucleus that was not attached to the shell wall.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Think your clasp was originally like mine &amp; then dyed along with the beads.&nbsp; I should add that mine are knotted because I restrung them; probably were not when I got them.&nbsp; You can see attaching the second part of the clasp was a challenge I did not meet very well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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